Dixie Flagler
The Dixie Flagler was a passenger train that ran from Chicago to Miami over six different railroads.[1]
The equipment was built by the Budd Company in 1939 for service as the Henry M. Flagler, a regional streamliner operating between Jacksonville, Florida and Miami over the Florida East Coast Railway, in which capacity it operated for a single season. With the introduction of two new overnight all-coach streamliners on cooperating railroads, the Henry M. Flagler equipment was placed in service on a rotating once every three days overnight schedule between Chicago and Miami as the Dixie Flagler beginning December 17, 1940. Together with its counterparts South Wind and City of Miami, the trains offered daily service between Chicago and the east coast of Florida. Originally intended as a winter-season-only service, the public response was strong enough that the trains were placed into permanent year-round service by the summer of 1941.
References
- ^ "The Dixie Flagler". Eric H. Bowen. 2006-2010 with original timetable information copyright ©1941 by National Railway Publication Company. Retrieved 2012-04-04.
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- Named passenger trains of the United States
- Passenger trains of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad
- Passenger trains of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
- Passenger trains of the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railway
- Passenger trains of the Central of Georgia Railway
- Passenger trains of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
- Passenger trains of the Florida East Coast Railway