> Posted by: "Jamie Bothwell" [email protected] jamiebothwell
> Thu Aug 19, 2010 1:03 pm (PDT)
>
> The car was completed in November of 1948 and I would imagine it started
> running soon after that. The California Zephyr itself didn't start running
> until March 20th of 1949, so "Silver Rapids" ran on the Exposition Flyer for
> a few months. The PRR dropped this car line in 1957 . . .
Coast-to-coast sleepers ran on a number of trains from the late 1940s to the
mid 1950s. The Super Chief, which ran daily, had the best service: both a PRR
sleeper and a NYC sleeper between Los Angeles and New York City and a B&O
sleeper between Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
I wonder how these cars were shuttled from station to station at Chicago.
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