Passenger Train Consists Lynchburg-Bristol

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In “Passenger Train Consists of the 1940’s” I found this Tennessean consist:

Southern train 45 westbound
Departing Knoxville, TN March 21, 1945

SOU 1701 GRAND JUNCTION        Baggage-Mail car (LW)
SOU 1750 DECATUR                        Mail storage car   (LW)
SOU 705 BEDFORD                          Baggage- Dormitory-Coach (LW)
N&W 1705                                        Coach
N&W 1704                                        Coach
SOU 905 MORRISTOWN                 Coach (LW)
SOU 3304 ALEXANDRIA                  Dining car (LW)
SOU 806 HUNTSVILLE                      Coach (LW)
SOU 813 LYNCHBURG                      Coach (LW)
SOU 1150 WASHINGTON                Tavern-Lounge car (LW)
VILLA NOVA                                       10 Sections, 3 Double Bedrooms
BRENTWOOD                                     12 Sections, 1 Drawing Room
McRAE                                                 12 Sections, 1 Drawing Room

The 10 Sec-3 Dbr sleeper ran Washington-Memphis.
A 12 Sec-1DR ran Washington-Nashville. It was set out at Chattanooga (to Nashville via NC&StL)

--Rick Morrison


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Sent: Tuesday, February 6, 2024 10:41 PM
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Subject: Re: Passenger Train Consists Lynchburg-Bristol

Based on my first sightings of the Tennessean in the late 1940's, I would guess that it ran more or less with its "as built" consist in the 1940's. The first change was two streamlined Pullmans replacing heavyweight cars in 1948 or 1949. That was the Tennessean the first time I saw it in Roanoke, and my memory is that all cars on the train were streamlined. I could be missing something, but that is how I have always remembered it. Changes in consist came later.

Jim Nichols

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