On the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Chicago-Miami South Wind did the locomotive and cars read Pennsylvania on them and was the train rain by the Pennsy. I ask this because I find it interesting because the route of that train was not on pennsy rails south of louisville. Also I wonder if the people thought it strange in the south that a Pennsy train was running in Alabama, Tennessee, and Florida, 1200 miles outside of its namesake state.
The South Wind was a part of the Chicao-Miami triple header to provide daily service. The IC’s City of Miami and the C&EI Dixie Flagler completed the trio.
The South Wind’s cars were originally all painted in the PRR Tuscan Red scheme. The City of Miami was done in the IC’s orange/brown livery. The Dixie Flagler was done in Budd Company stainless. As time wore on and business levels changed other cars worked their way into the consists, however, the IC was most adamant in keeping the IC livery intact on the the City of Miami. The carriers that participated in each of the routings supplied power to the trains, so it was not uncommon to see PRR or ACL power on the South Wind; IC or ACL power on the City of Miami; C&EI, L&N or FEC power on the Dixie Flagler. All of the trains utilized the FEC routing south of Jacksonville until the 1962 FEC strike effectively ended all passenger service on the FEC. After the FEC strike the trains used the SCL’s more circuitous routing from Jacksonville to Miami. Also with the occurence of the FEC strike the operation of the Dixie Flagler came to an end since this train was the original inspiration of the FEC and named in honor of Henry Flagler who built the FEC and the railroad that went to sea…the Miami to Key West extension of the FEC.
All three of the Chicago-Miami trains were initially coach streamliners prior to WW2 with one set of equipment each. The City of Miami equipment was owned by IC, the South Wind equipment was owned by PRR, and the Dixie Flagler equipment was owned by FEC. The situation changed in the postwar period when the consists expanded and sleepers were added.
The Dixie Flagler was originally the Jacksonville-Miami “Henry M Flagler”.
What is the relationship with the red container cars that say “South WInd” with CRLE reporting marks
South Wind.
What a seductive name for a train
Which ad-mule in which RR or ad agency thought of it?
Must have hit unionized steel and auto workes in the gut for a few years later they all retired to Florida.
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I am learning something I didn’t know before…that Pennsylania RR was involved in a train from Chicago to Miami…Guess that’s one of the benefits to being on here…
“South Wind, you picked her up in Nashville left me standin’ in that cold and lonesome rain.” “And you go woooooooooooo, oooooooooooh oooooooooh, she’s gone again, on The South Wind.” (Johnny Cash). The JMJ Video’s- “Florida Diesels” have pictures, taken by Joe L Oats, in the early sixties, and they show Pennsy E7’s, and E8’s with the Wind, as well as The City of Miami. Don’t forget that the Central of Georgia Railway re-styled their two E8’s to an IC paint scheme, for The City of Miami, and ran them as far as where the Atlantic Coast Line Railway to over.