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As I noted a few months ago, Southern Railway once tried to compete with ACL and SAL in the New York-Florida market but dropped out in about 1915. Instead, its main market was New York-New Orleans, but it also ran … Continue reading
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Southern responded to the intense competition with the ACL and Seaboard by introducing the Palm Limited, between New York and Jacksonville/St. Augustine, on January 11, 1904. This was the first truly evocative name in the Florida corridor. Though competitively equipped, … 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
Like the Atlantic Coast Line, the Queen & Crescent Route wasn’t a railroad but a cooperative venture by five independent railroads. Cincinnati liked to call itself the Queen city while New Orleans was the Crescent city, so the rail route … Continue reading
Just a few months ago, we had a Southern lunch menu with a fruit basket on the cover like this one, but the cover was printed in black and green This one has the addition of a reddish-orange color. It … Continue reading
Here’s the lunch companion to yesterday’s breakfast menu and the previous Southern Railway dinner menu from 1970. Like the breakfast menu, this one offers at least one traditional Southern specialty. Also like the breakfast, this one has several entrées that … Continue reading
It’s always nice to have a menu that at least partly reflects local culture. This one offered a “Rebel Breakfast” consisting of a “crisp streak o’ lean bacon,” an egg, grits with gravy, bread, and a beverage. Since bacon was … Continue reading
We’ve seen a variation of this menu cover before on an early 1971 menu. That one was printed entirely in black ink on blue paper, while this one, which is dated October 1968, is printed in blue and green ink … Continue reading
This booklet advertises the New Orleans connection between the Sunset Limited and Crescent, allowing passengers to go from coast to coast. As mentioned here previously, this “Washington-Sunset Route” was advertised from 1946 to 1949 and again from 1954 to 1956. … Continue reading
I rode the Southern Crescent in both 1977 and 1978, but I probably collected these in 1978 with yesterday’s timetable. The first is a nice piece of stationery that shows the Southern’s distinctly painted E units and the logo with … Continue reading