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Thank you Southwest.

 

A tidbit to share.  A friend of my critiqued me for my finishes in the SCL scheme, saying "They're too shiny!".  He believed that most SCL passenger trains were not very clean.

 

I suggested to my friend to view this YouTube video clip.  To get to the passenger action, allow the video to load then move the play bar forward to time index 02:25 and play the video from that point.  As the saying goes, a picture is worth 1000 words!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iia8Qf09jA0

 

This was just before or after Amtrak took over. Ironically it was after the creation of Amtrak that the ex-SCL equipment started to look dingy as it took Amtrak a few years to get its act together as far as dedicated maintenance. 

 

SCL was one of the few railroads in the late 60s that was still making a profit (albeit a small one) on its long distance passenger trains and made the effort to provide decent service and clean equipment (inspite the interference from Penn Central). Historical speculation has been that if it had not been for the 1968 wreck of the Silver Meteor near Winter Haven, Florida....... SCL may have opted out of Amtrak, like the Southern did.  

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