Unlike its rival, the Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard didn’t have financial ties with railroads that connected to the Midwest. As a result, most of its passenger trains were concentrated in the New York-Florida market. This also meant its timetables were … Continue reading
Like its rival and eventual merger partner, Atlantic Coast Line, the Seaboard railroad had an impressive array of trains heading south from New York City (via PRR and RF&P) in 1956. At 9:50 am, the Silver Star departed for Florida … Continue reading
In 1961, passenger service was declining on many railroads, but Seaboard still offered four trains a day between New York and Florida. The Silver Meteor went to Miami and St. Petersburg, the Silver Star and Palmland went primarily to Miami … Continue reading
In January 1927, Seaboard completed its “all Florida” line to Miami and passengers no longer had to ride a “parlor car bus” between West Palm Beach and Miami. Among the passengers on the first train to Miami was Dorothy Walker … Continue reading
In 1924, Seaboard extended its Florida line to West Palm Beach, then reached Miami in 1926. Both the ACL and Southern Railway had to share revenues from Miami-bound passengers with the Florida East Coast, but Seaboard now had its own … Continue reading
In the turn-of-the-20th-century corridors we’ve examined to date — New York-Chicago, Chicago-Los Angeles, Chicago-Seattle, and Chicago-Twin Cities — a large share of the passengers were traveling for business. In the Florida corridor, however, most travel was for pleasure. This 1906 … Continue reading
This menu is undated but the hairstyles in the photo on the back cover place in the mid-1960s. The front cover is a travesty of design: three different graphic styles and eight different typefaces both indicating that whoever put it … Continue reading
As the passenger business faded in the late 1960s, many dining car dinner menus shrank to offer just three or four main entrées. But this one from 1967 included five table d’hôte dinners ranging from fish to steak; three “dinner … Continue reading
In addition to the usual assortment of eggs and meats, this 1966 menu offers a “Deep South Breakfast” consisting of Virginia-cured ham, two eggs, and hominy grits. The breakfast also came with fruit juice or cereal (which was hardly a … Continue reading
Here are a few more blotters advertising Florida trains from the Dale Hastin collection. The PDFs range from 290- to 665-KB. As noted yesterday, Central of Georgia was a link in the chain of railroads providing routes from the Midwest … Continue reading
