THE
NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN AND HARTFORD RAILROAD CO.
PARLOR,
SLEEPING AND DINING CAR SERVICE.
Parlor
Cars on Trains 168, 169, 170, 171, 174, 175, 176, 177, 182, 183, 188
and 189, are Pullman Company operated. All other Parlor Cars are owned
and operated by the New Haven Railroad. All Sleeping Cars are Pullman
Company operated.
Air-conditioned
equipment is assigned as far as possible, but the right is reserved to
employ non air-conditioned cars in emergencies or when the volume of
traffic makes it necessary.
When regular trains are operated in two
sections, the coach section may not have a dining car.
USE OF PARLOR CAR FACILITIES.
Where
Buffet Parlor Cars are operated, the accommodations, facilities and
services provided therein are available only to passengers holding
tickets for space in such cars, or other Parlor Cars on the same train,
and railroad tickets good for travel in Parlor Cars, or paying the
Parlor seat fare and additional railroad fare for the distance traveled
in such cars, when space is available therein.
No.
26—Merchants Limited. (No Coaches.)
EXTRA FARE TRAIN.
Parlor Cars...New York to Boston. [
Car 260-267
incl., and
No. 269.]
Dining Car...New York to Boston.
Two-way Radio-Telephone
Service, located in Car 269, available to passengers.
No.
27—Merchants Limited. (No Coaches.)
EXTRA FARE TRAIN.
Parlor Cars...Boston to New York. [
Cars 270
to
277,
incl., and 279.]
Dining Car...Boston to New York.
Two-way Radio-Telephone
Service, located in Car 270, available to passengers.
The Merchants Limited had been the only all-parlor-car train in North America to survive the World War II years with that status intact. As the country emerged into peacetime and the three major car builders once again began turning out passenger rolling stock, its future looked bright. And, indeed, for a few brief months in late 1948-early 1949, the Merchants was to operate as the only all-parlor-car train in North America with brand-new streamlined rolling stock.