Memphis East/West?
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illinoisandy
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To the best of my knowledge, Amtrak has never had any service other than the North-South Service, first Panama Limited and now City of New Orleans, which as a side note utilizes the traditional Panama Limited time frame, the City was a Day Train, listen to the lyrics of the song.
To answer beyond Amtrak, my 1965 Official Guide of Railways list 7 railroads with passenger service and 2 freight only at Memphis, plus three stations. Central (Still used), Lauderdale St., and Mo Pac
The direction the line comes from and number of timetables is in ( ) * number of timetables may not mean number of physical lines but train routes.
CRI&P Rock Island (West, 1), Frisco (Northwest-Southeast 2), GM & O (North-South No Pass. ) IC (Current Amtrak Route 3 ) L&N (East, Northeast 3) Mo Pac (West-North) St. Lois SW (West No pass. ) Southern (East 1)
This is in a later period in the pre-Amtrak days and lines with no pass. Service had it at an earlier point,
Hopefully will answer your question and give a picture of how Memphis was one of the East Lines, West Lines meeting places like but to a lesser extent than St. Louis, KC, etc. back in the day for passenger service.
To answer beyond Amtrak, my 1965 Official Guide of Railways list 7 railroads with passenger service and 2 freight only at Memphis, plus three stations. Central (Still used), Lauderdale St., and Mo Pac
The direction the line comes from and number of timetables is in ( ) * number of timetables may not mean number of physical lines but train routes.
CRI&P Rock Island (West, 1), Frisco (Northwest-Southeast 2), GM & O (North-South No Pass. ) IC (Current Amtrak Route 3 ) L&N (East, Northeast 3) Mo Pac (West-North) St. Lois SW (West No pass. ) Southern (East 1)
This is in a later period in the pre-Amtrak days and lines with no pass. Service had it at an earlier point,
Hopefully will answer your question and give a picture of how Memphis was one of the East Lines, West Lines meeting places like but to a lesser extent than St. Louis, KC, etc. back in the day for passenger service.
Memphis was a Railroad Gateway city. I traveled through and changed stations many times in the late 1950s and early 1960s as a child with family
I rode the Memphis -Nashvile overnight train in the mid 1960s. It was schedule to depart Memphis at 10:30pm, but did leave until all the mail was loaded. It still arrived Nashville On time at 6:30am. It made many, many stops including Warren,TN which had less than 50 people. The through Memphis-Nashville tracks are gone
We traveled on the City of Memphis in the mid 1950s which was a much nicer train, but fewer passegers.
We traveled on the City of Memphis in the mid 1950s which was a much nicer train, but fewer passegers.
The last one that did that was this one....http://condrenrails.com/MRP/MemphisCentralStation/Frisco-Last-Pass-Train.htm
The last passenger train to operate east/west Through any rail "gateway" (CHI, STL, MEM, or NOL), was Amtrak's National Limited which ran NYP-KCY, with a thru sleeper to LAX. Amtrak also ran a thru NYP-NOL-LAX sleeper for a time, but not an entire train.
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I don't think the Sunset ever terminated at Sanford. It did do so at Orlando.
Eric is correct! I rode the Sunset East in '96 from NOL to Sanford, the terminal Station! ( and it was 18 Hours Late!)
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So...I was right, afterall....I should have looked further at the old timetables....just tried to recall from memory....
thanks for the corrections....
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