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From: "David MonteVerde" david AT gvtrail DOT com
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 10:28:07 -0500
Subject: FW: Pullmans to everywhere, no more
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Pullmans to everywhere, no more




Posted by Brian Schmidt


on Wednesday, November 23, 2016

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On this, the traditional busiest travel day of the year, I found sobering
map from Trains' past. In brief, red lines show Pullman service active in
1967 that also operated in 1927, while black lines show Pullman service
discontinued in the intervening years. The map supports a five-page feature
story in the October 1967 issue by Frank E. Shaffer. Contrasted with
Amtrak's current route map, the Trains reader of 1967 must not have realized
just how good he still had it when choosing travel by rail. The story ends
thus:

"If there is any comfort in the constantly changing scene, it might be
forming in the minds of those who view railroading with the realization that
four decades from now, Trains will be publishing a sentimental review of the
'good old days' of 1967."

Well, Frank, consider this the sentimental review you predicted, just nine
years late



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