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Restoration completed on Southern Railway sleeper lounge
Are these the same cars which were built as observation cars and rebuilt to midtrain lounges? I’d love to see the other three cars restored to operating condition.
Would love to see a recent photo.
This is splendid! I favour the design of lightweight passenger cars built by Pullman-Standard. The fact that it once belonged to my favourite railway, Southern, makes it all the more marvelous.
I hope they didn’t use the same “designer” that did the El Patron Teaquilla Express car. Wow, is that ever tacky, inside (especially) and out.
TRAINS’ Preservation Award
NRHS Heritage Grant Program
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The three cars that were built as 5 double bedroom observation cars were rebuilt to be 11 double bedroom cars. They were “Royal Palm”, “Royal Court” and “Luther Calvin Norris” (formerly “Royal Arch.”)
I would so love to again see the 1949 Crescent Limited observation car at least in pictures again. We are an old Southern Railway family from Selma, Ala. I first saw the magnigicent Crescent while it stood at noon in Montgomery
L&N Station, rather Union Station. This was exactly Nov. 11, 1951, Armistice Day. I was 16 years-old. The kindly Chinese
porter of the car showed me to beautiful interior. It had a raised floor at the very end. I’m sorry that I used the Crescent only once, from Atlanta to Montgomery. I preferred the Southerner from Birmingham for trips to NYC because of it’s afternoon departure around 3:00 P.M. Please submit more details with pictures.
I would so love to again see the 1949 Crescent Limited observation car at least in pictures again. We are an old Southern Railway family from Selma, Ala. I first saw the magnigicent Crescent while it stood at noon in Montgomery
L&N Station, rather Union Station. This was exactly Nov. 11, 1951, Armistice Day. I was 16 years-old. The kindly Chinese
porter of the car showed me to beautiful interior. It had a raised floor at the very end. I’m sorry that I used the Crescent only once, from Atlanta to Montgomery. I preferred the Southerner from Birmingham for trips to NYC because of it’s afternoon departure around 3:00 P.M. Please submit more details with pictures.
I would so love to again see the 1949 Crescent Limited observation car at least in pictures again. We are an old Southern Railway family from Selma, Ala. I first saw the magnigicent Crescent while it stood at noon in Montgomery
L&N Station, rather Union Station. This was exactly Nov. 11, 1951, Armistice Day. I was 16 years-old. The kindly Chinese
porter of the car showed me to beautiful interior. It had a raised floor at the very end. I’m sorry that I used the Crescent only once, from Atlanta to Montgomery. I preferred the Southerner from Birmingham for trips to NYC because of it’s afternoon departure around 3:00 P.M. Please submit more details with pictures.
I agree with Mr. Kaplan: this kind of article without a picture (perhaps before and after shots) doesn’t say much.
I put in some time on that restoration.
I rode the “Crescent Moon” with my family on the Crescent Limited in March of 1959, but I am sure it was not an observation car but a mid-train sleeper/lounge; one of the only sleepers I ever saw before Amtrak equipped with showers.
I rode the “Crescent Moon” with my family on the Crescent Limited in March of 1959, but I am sure it was not an observation car but a mid-train sleeper/lounge; one of the only sleepers I ever saw before Amtrak equipped with showers.
As I remember, the “Crescent” series cars were the mid-train lounges, with two master rooms each. Some of the other readers may be thinking of the “Royal” series observation sleeper-lounges on the same train .