According to photos appearing in Classic Trains and Trains over the years, the
coast-to-coast sleepers would be taken off the train in Chicago. A switcher of
the road servicing the particular station would take the sleeper with a caboose
coupled behind the Pullman to the station of the forwarding railroad. So an
NYC Pullman would be taken off the Twentieth Century at LaSalle Street Station
and forwarded to the CB&Q at Union Station. The Century arrived at 9:00 a.m.
or so, the Pullman taken off and hauled by switcher to Union Station, I think,
where it would be coupled to the Cal Zeph some time before its 3:00 or 3:30
p.m. departure.
It is not entirely clear to me whether the Pullman passengers would be allowed
to ride along on this interesting journey or whether they would disembark,
check out downtown Chicago, or be forwarded to the station in question by
Parmalee Taxi. If the Pullman for the western train was brought to the coach
yard of the forwarding railroad where it was coupled to the western train, then
I doubt that the passengers would care to reside in their car while it sat for
hours in the coach yard because the trains from the East usually arrived in the
morning hours in Chicago, and the western trains typically left Chicago between
3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. I refer of course to the premier trains of the
respective roads offering this service.
Tom
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