Yesterday’s post mentioned that the Chicago-Florida South Wind, Dixie Flagler, Georgian, and the Humming Bird were all-coach trains in 1946. The front cover of this timetable (the cover below being the back) advertises that sleeping cars were added to these trains in 1949. The first two trains also gained new observation-lounge cars for the use of sleeping car passengers.

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Yesterday’s timetable included a schedule for unnamed trains between New Orleans and Jacksonville. These were actually just through cars on the Crescent and Azalean that were taken off those trains at Flomaton and transferred to other trains and later transferred to a third train at Chattahoochee.

In today’s timetable, one of these trains has been given a name, the Gulf Wind, but it’s still just through cars. From New Orleans to Flomaton the Gulf Wind was really the Piedmont Limited while from Flomaton to New Orleans it was part of the Pan-American. Only between Flomaton and Jacksonville did the train go exclusively by the name of Gulf Wind.