“Our trains go to Florida, Florida and Florida” says an ad in this timetable, which was published three years after Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard merged and four months before Amtrak would take over passenger trains to Florida. Indeed, the timetable lists six daily trains between New York and Florida, three others between Florida and other cities, and only one non-Florida train.

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The winter-only Florida Special was still running, commencing December 18. It was no longer all-Pullman, but still had a “recreation car” of sorts. The “attractive hostesses” working in that car now modeled swimsuits and other fashions for the tourists heading to Florida.

Other New York-Florida trains included the Silver Meteor, Silver Star, Champion, Everglades, and Gulf Coast Special. The City of Miami and South Wind started in Chicago, and the Gulf Wind went to New Orleans. The non-Florida train was the Palmland, which only made it from New York as far as Columbia, South Carolina. Six daily trains between New York and Florida is pretty impressive even if it took the merger of two railroads to do it.