(Nickel Plate Notes)
THE NEW YORK, CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS RAILROAD COMPANY
EQUIPMENT.
EASTBOUND.
No. 8—THE NEW YORKER.
Daily.
(Via Nickel Plate-Lackawanna.)
Sleeping Car...Chicago to New York—10 Roomettes, 6 Double Bedrooms (Car
80).
Diner Lounge...Chicago to Buffalo.
Dining Service...Scranton to New York.
Coaches...Chicago to New York.
Chicago to Buffalo—Individual Reclining Seats.
WESTBOUND.
No. 7—THE WESTERNER.
Daily.
(Via Lackawanna-Nickel Plate.)
Sleeping Car...New York to Chicago—10 Roomettes, 6 Double Bedrooms (Car
70).
Diner Lounge...New York to Scranton.
Buffalo to Chicago.
Coaches...New York to Chicago.
Buffalo to Chicago—Individual Reclining Seats.
(Delaware, Lackawanna
& Western Notes)
THE DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA & WESTERN RAILROAD
THE ROUTE OF PHOEBE SNOW
PULLMAN, COACH, DINING AND BUFFET CAR SERVICE
Regularly assigned cars are Air-Conditioned.
WESTWARD.
THE WESTERNER.
No. 7—Daily.
Sleeping Cars...New York to Chicago, via Nickel Plate No. 7—10
Roomettes, 6 Double Bedrooms (Car 70.)
New York to Buffalo—10 Roomettes, 6 Double Bedrooms. (Car 71.) (Except
Saturday.) (May be occupied until 8:00 a.m.)
Diner Lounge Cars...New York to Scranton. Buffalo to Chicago, via
Nickel Plate No. 7.
Reclining Seat Coaches—
New York to Chicago, via Nickel Plate No. 7.
New York to Buffalo.
EASTWARD.
THE NEW YORKER.
No. 8—Except Saturday night.
No. 14—Sunday morning only.
Sleeping Cars—
Chicago to New York, via Nickel Plate No. 8—10 Roomettes, 6 Double
Bedrooms. (Car 80.)
Buffalo to New York—10 Roomettes, 6 Double Bedrooms. (Car 83.) (Open
for occupancy at 9:00 p.m.)
Diner Lounge Car—
Chicago to Buffalo, via Nickel Plate No. 8.
Buffalo to New York.
Dining Car—Scranton to New York.
Reclining Seat Coaches—
Chicago to New York, via Nickel Plate No. 8
Buffalo to New York
The Westerner and the New Yorker were the Nickel Plate/Lackawanna's entry in the through Chicago-New York market. (While other trains exchanged through cars, at the time of this schedule these were the only true through trains that the railroads jointly operated). Here you see the trains on the eve of the Erie-Lackawanna merger, which would occur the very next month (October 17, 1960). While the trains would continue to operate into 1961 the handwriting was on the wall; the newly merged railroad would be dominated by the larger partner Erie. The Nickel Plate's days as an independent railroad were also numbered; bereft of its long-time outlet to the East it would be swallowed up by Norfolk and Western in 1964.