City of New Orleans (train) discussion

[Palmland]

Sometimes a switch engine was part of the process, a thing which Amtrak only has available in a few places.

Most definitely. The sleeper I was in was added at Memphis. A switch engine coupled up and pulled us beyond the yard throat. When the Panama pulled in another engine was moving in behind the observation before the train had stopped and then removed it. My car was quickly added, then the observation and we were off. Quite a performance done in 12 minutes.

But in Amtrak’s mail and express era we lived in Jax. A switch engine was based there to handle it but it also switched out the east and west coast sections of the Silver Star.

 

[ryanwc]

Guess times are not going to get back to the 50s when they had hair dressers and barbers that even gave shaves with straight razors.

Investigator: What happened here?

Barber: Well, the ride got a little bumpy while I was shaving his neck…

 

[Asher]

The story I read about the barbers was about the smooth roadway the train traveled on a particular route in the 50’s. I suppose they were much smoother back then.