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A January 1930 Official Guide (five months after the August 1, 1929, date given for the involvement of the N&W in TAT) lists Train 23 arriving in Columbus 7:35 a.m., Train 25 5:40 p.m., and Train 33 10:50 a.m.

Gordon Hamilton
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  There is a clarification I would like to ask related to this post.  The text below references N&W train #23 serving Columbus.  The oldest N&W timetable I have is 1933, and it only list trains 33 - 36 as serving Columbus.  Is the 23 a typo, or an earlier Columbus train that was replaced by 33-36?

  Marty Flick

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    Marty:
    N&W's involvement with TAT appeared in the PRRT&HS's Summer, 2003 edition of
    The Keystone, p. 46.  Here are some excerpts:
    1- "On August 1, 1929,  the N&W became one of three railroads in the United States offering
         an air-rail route from coast-to-coast partner Transcontinental Air Transport."

    2- "Train #23 arrived at Broad Street Crossing in Columbus at 7:35 (AM),. . . A TAT 
         Aerocar met Train #23 and conveyed passengers to Port Columbus, where breakfast
         was served prior to boarding the Tri-motor scheduled to leave at 8:45 a.m."

         A correction to what was previously sent - TAT's Aerocars (there were 13)  were NOT busses,
         but a trailers hauled by an automobiles. It had been designed by  Ford and closely resembled
         what  an Air Stream trailer looks like today.

    3- "Westbound, ticket agents of the Norfolk & Western sold tickets via rail and plane to
         Los Angeles and San Francisco, Cal. or to any intermediate point at which planes were
         scheduled to stop."

    4- "Eastbound, TAT ticketed passengers to any point on the Norfolk & Western in West
         Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina" (but apparently not Ohio),

    5- "N&W's service lasted over a year".

    The article was published in the Norfolk & Western Magazine, Vol. 7, Number 9, but the
    bound volume for 1929 has been checked out of the archives and I'm not able to offer any other
    N&W data.   

    If you have any interest in TAT, The Keystone article  is a "must  read" complete with a
    multitude of b&w photos and with logos, brochure covers, baggage labels, and playing cards in
    color.

    Not N&W-related, but on March 31, 1931, a Fokker Tri-Motor left Kansas City at 9:15 a.m.
    Less than an hour later, it was a mass of twisted steel,  wood, fabric and aluminum in a
    wheatfield near Bazaar, Kansas.  The crew and six passengers were killed -- including
    Knute Rockne of Notre Dame fame.  He was en route to Hollywood to serve as a technical
    advisor.                                          Harry Bundy
       
           



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