More Missouri Pacific: Colorado Eagle (s) (w/DRGW) Missouri River Eagle (s) The Royal Gorge (s) (w/DRGW & WP) The Missourian The Sunflower Hot Springs Special The Ozarker The Rainbow Special Louisiana Sunshine Special Delta Eagle (s) South Texas Eagle (s) West Texas Eagle (s) Key: (s)- Streamliner [ February 25, 2006, 04:36 PM: Message edited by: Matthew Roberts ]
BN9900 Here are a few from the southeast - ATLANTIC COAST LINE Train Nos. Name # 1/ 2 East Coast Champion 91/ 92 West Coast Champion 77/ 78 Palmetto 87/ 88 Florida Special 375/376 Everglades 75/ 75 Havana Special 42/ 49 --- 54/ 55 --- SEABOARD AIR LINE 17/ 18 Portsmouth VA - Raleigh NC 57/ 58 Silver Meteor 33/ 34 Silver Comet 21/ 22 Silver Star 3/ 4 --- Passenger, Mail/Express 5/ --- " " 8 The Sunland 9/ The Palmland
Just a trivial addendum... A railroader (at least the old heads) will always refer to a train by number as opposed to it's name. The train names were something thought up by the sales & marketing dept's. Something that the public could easily identify and associate with the railroad. Even today with freight trains using symbols for ID such as QCHCSSE1 -24, a lot of rails(dispatchers included)will refer to that train as #1. CT
Thank you all!! I've added the Southern Roads, No I just need to add the Missouri Pacific and Milwaukee Road. Boxcab- I know most of the trains run from Chicago-Tacoma but are there any that ran only to in between programs? Matthew, thank you, I just need some clarification; the MP trains you listed, Do you have routes? If not, its ok
Wasn't there an express called the "Sunbeam" that went to and from Grand Central Station early every morning, then was something else in the evenings? I think back in the 1930's?
Clayton- Most of those I listed above, did not run from Chicago to Seattle-Tacoma. Many of them are Chicago-Omaha, Chicago-Twin Cities. And points in between. The Washington, National Park Ltd, Varsity, Copper Country Ltd, etc, were branch line trains. Boxcab E50
L&N - Hummingbird Pan American GM&O - Gulf Wind Rebel FEC - Dixie Flagler B&M - Flying Yankee (w/MEC) Mountaineer (w/MEC) Minute Man Chesire Red Wing (w/CPR) Alouette (w/CPR) East Wind (w/MEC, NYNH&H) Gull (w/MEC, BAR, CPR) Bar Harbor (w/NYNH&H, MEC) State Of Maine (w/NYNH&H, MEC) Dartmouth Ambassador Berkshire Flyer Pine Tree Limited (w/MEC) Cumberland (w/MEC) Kennebec (w/MEC) Rutland - Green Mountain Flyer (w/B&M, CNR) Mount Royal (w/B&M, CNR) NYNH&H - Merchants Limited Night Owl There were many more named trains on these roads. These are only the ones that I can confirm from photos and/or having ridden. [ February 25, 2006, 02:35 PM: Message edited by: Hytec ]
Wayne, I don't remember the NYC or NYNH&H having anything called the "Sunbeam" out of GCT. Might have been a Pennsy train out of NYC's Penn Station...?
BN9900: Colorado Eagle (St. Louis-Kansas City-Pueblo-Denver-San Fransisco) Missouri River Eagle (St. Louis-K.C.-Omaha-Lincoln) Royal Gorge (St. Louis-K.C.-Denver-San Fransisco) The Missourian (St. Louis-K.C.-Los Angeles) The Sunflower (St. Louis-Wichita) or (St. Louis-K.C.-Omaha-Lincoln) Hot Springs Special (Chicago-St. Louis-Little Rock-Hot Springs, AR) The Ozarker (St. Louis-Little Rock-Hot Springs-Dallas-Ft. Worth) {Section from Memphis-Little Rock} The Rainbow Special (Kansas City-Little Rock) Louisiana Sunshine Special (St. Louis-Memphis-New Orleans-Lake Charles) Delta Eagle (Memphis-Tallulah, LA {Opposite Vicksburg, MS}) South TX Eagle (St. Louis-Little Rock-Austin-San Antonio-Laredo) West TX Eagle (St. Louis-Little Rock-Dallas-Ft. Worth-El Paso-L.A.) Also found: The Southern Scenic (Kansas City-Little Rock-Memphis)
Charlie~ Thanks, I was thinking that, however, for the purpose of this list, alot of the trains had different numbers over its life time. I might in the future when I have time add the numbers in but for now, what the public know are the names but I will add the numbers I have Sorry long winded
You're welcome to any of the help I have offered. That is certainly an ambitious project that you are undertaking. One more thing, a number of interurban lines, mostly the bigger ones, had train names on some of their trains. I'll check some of my books and send you a few names. Charlie
Thanks, it is. It started when the director at BRM asked me to research some 20 odd trains of different types...long Distance, Commuter and so on. However, I don't know what HO equipment we have so thats Why I chose most RRs however, I also thought it might be neat to have that list and info like that for reference. It will be worked on over the year but I would like to share it here, Is there a better way...Here or Email?
Clayton, the source reference I could not remember is "The Official Guide of the Railways." It used to be published monthly when varnish was in it's heyday. If you can find one from the 1930's, maybe on ebay, it would have a list of all trains in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico and Cuba for the time.
I have one more question for now. Does anyone know of any obscure CNW trains? I have most of the 400s but were there any others?
Take a look at this month's Trains magazine. The feature article is about onboard food service. There is a sidebar that lists all(?) of Pennsy's name trains that carried diners....I didn't know Pennsy had that many trains!!!
Thanks, will look at it. I was surprised too. I still want to publish the list but don't know where so it won't over load anything...over 800 trains. [ February 28, 2006, 11:52 AM: Message edited by: BN9900 ]
