City of Memphis (train)
Template:Short description Template:More footnotes Template:Italic title Template:Infobox rail service The City of Memphis was a Script error: No such module "convert". passenger train route operated by the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway connecting Nashville's Nashville Union Station and Memphis, Tennessee's Memphis Union Station.[1]
History
The City of Memphis was powered by one of the last steam locomotives ever streamlined.[2] The six cars were all rebuilt and streamlined by the NC&StL shops from heavyweight cars. The six cars were originally Pullman Heavyweight Parlor Cars before purchase by the NC&STL for conversion to coaches in June 1941.[3]
The six car consist had a revenue seating capacity of 204 and was built to operate on a fast five-hour schedule between Nashville and Memphis a distance of Script error: No such module "convert".. The train set operated a daily round trip and lasted beyond the 1957 Louisville and Nashville Railroad takeover of the NC&StL, although the name was removed from the service by 1955.[4]
Equipment
Template:Infobox train consist To equip the train the railroad rebuilt six heavyweight Pullman parlor cars. The resulting train consisted of a baggage-mail car, a coach-dinette-lounge, two 56-seat coaches, a dining-tavern car, and a coach-lounge-observation car. Several of the train's cars survive, including the coach-lounge-observation, which is part of the collection of the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in the Chattanooga area.[5]
Notes
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- ↑ 'Official Guide of the Railways,' August 1949, Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis section
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References
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External links
- 1950 timetable
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- North American streamliner trains
- Passenger trains of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway
- Passenger rail transportation in Tennessee
- Named passenger trains of the United States
- Railway services introduced in 1947
- Railway services discontinued in 1958