Budd must have had a crackerjack sales staff in the period emmediately prior to WWII. They sold a slew of 7 car coach trains that seem to have been built from the same plans (ACL Champion, SAL Silver Meteor, FEC//L&N/C&EI Dixie Flagler, FEC/ACL/L&N/PRR South Wind.) An interesting note is that 2 of them wound up in competetive routes between Chicago and Florida. They used one train set running every three days. If you wanted to leave Chicago on a monday you went to Dearborn Station and left on the C&EI Dixie Flagler, tue. to Central Station and left on the IC City Of Miami (w/Pullman built smooth side equipment), wed. to Union Station and the PRR South Wind. By thurs. the Dixie Flagler was back and the rotation began again.
All the trains originally had a combine (bagg/coach?), 4 coaches, diner and a tavern/obs. (lt wt by 1945 they had added coaches and no tav/obs (due to wartime restrictions)
All the trains were eventually expanded from the original 7 car consist and, as mentioned above, The PRR South Wind lost it’s Lowey 2 tone tuscan red paint (and the IC City Of Miami was repainted in the IC standard orange and brown).