NOTE—Elizabethtown
is station for Abraham Lincoln National Park, Hodgenville Ky.; reached
by taxi service from Elizabethtown.
NOTE—Cave City is railroad station for
Mammoth Cave; taxi service from Cave City $2.25 one way, $3.75 round
trip.
NOTE
for Nos. 199 and 198 at Cumberland City: "Stops Saturday only to
receive or discharge revenue passengers for or from Clarksville and
scheduled stops beyond."
LOUISVILLE
& NASHVILLE RAILROAD
CINCINNATI to MEMPHIS and NEW ORLEANS
No. 99—The
Pan-American.
Observation Lounge [420] New
York-Cincinnati (2 Drawing-room, 1 Compartment, 1 Double Bedroom) (Bar).
Lounge...[77] Cincinnati-Mobile
(10-Sections).
Sleepers...[61] Cincinnati-New Orleans
(6-Sections, 6 Roomettes, 4 Double Bedrooms).
[K-417]
New York-Nashville (10 Roomettes, 6 Double Bedrooms).
[K-416]
New York-Memphis (10 Roomettes, 6 Double Bedrooms).
Diners...New York-Cincinnati.
Cincinnati-Birmingham.
Guthrie (3:10
p.m.)-Memphis.
Coaches...New York-Cincinnati (Reclining
Seats).
Cincinnati-New
Orleans (Reclining Seats).
Cincinnati-Memphis
(Reclining Seats).
Flomaton-Pensacola.
Lounge Coach...New York-Cincinnati (Bar).
AIR-CONDITIONED
CARS ARE REGULARLY ASSIGNED THE ABOVE TRAINS.
NEW
ORLEANS and MEMPHIS to CINCINNATI
No. 98—The
Pan-American.
Lounge...[78] Mobile-Cincinnati
(10-Sections).
Sleepers...[62] New Orleans-Cincinnati
(6-Sections, 6 Roomettes, 4 Double Bedrooms).
[L-98]
Louisville to New York (10 Roomettes, 6 Double Bedrooms).
[202]
Cincinnati-Pittsburgh (18 Roomettes) (Sleeper open 10:00
p.m.).
[204]
Cincinnati-Pittsburgh (10-Sections, 1 Compartment, 2 Double Bedrooms)
(Sleeper open 10:00 p.m.).
Dining Cars...Montgomery-Cincinnati.
Memphis-Guthrie
(1:05 p.m.).
Pittsburgh-New
York.
Coaches...New Orleans-Cincinnati
(Reclining Seats).
Pensacola-Flomaton.
Memphis-Cincinnati
(Reclining Seats).
Cincinnati-Pittsburgh
(Reclining Seats).
Pittsburgh-New
York (Reclining Seats).
AIR-CONDITIONED
CARS ARE REGULARLY ASSIGNED THE ABOVE TRAINS.
Although the Pan-American would never be officially streamlined, its equipment was upgraded in bits and pieces. This timetable shows the train just after new lightweight sleeping cars (6-section, 6 Roomette, 4 Double Bedroom) had entered service. Steam was definitely on its way out by this time but the railroads were still very much in transition; it is possible that a steamer could be assigned to this train or any of its connections on an occasional basis. One correspondent records seeing steam active in Cincinnati during this time on the B&O, NYC, and of course the N&W.
Earl Henry Jr. of Nashville writes, "I made a round trip between Nashville and Louisville in the mid-1950s. My guess is it was 1954 or 1955, and I would have been either 9 or 10 years old. My mother and I rode coach. The coaches were in the front of the train and there was a dining car in the middle. Coach passengers could not go through the dining car to the sleeping cars. I am unsure if there was another dining car for the Pullman passengers. I think not. There was a lounge car with tables where passengers could play cards or have a snack and soft drink. The lounge car on one train was 'Alabama Club' and on the other train was 'Tennessee Club'. Each of these club cars had a huge mural of the representative state capitol on the forward-facing end of the car. I was never in the car 'Kentucky Club' but would assume it had a similar mural of the Kentucky state capitol. Both trains were pulled by a pair of beautifully decorated E8s in the blue and cream scheme. There was one Pennsy sleeper in the train but I think all the other cars were in L&N blue."
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