conrail5065 posted:Hot Water posted:conrail5065 posted:The Broadway limited carried Sleepers from the ATSF to and from New York, as did the Santa Fe carry PRR sleepers. They interchanged in Chicago. So therefore you could ride an ATSF sleeper from Philadelphia(or New York) to Los Angeles.
They did that in 1946 when the song was written?
Rusty Traque posted:conrail5065 posted:The Broadway limited carried Sleepers from the ATSF to and from New York, as did the Santa Fe carry PRR sleepers. They interchanged in Chicago. So therefore you could ride an ATSF sleeper from Philadelphia(or New York) to Los Angeles.
I dunno. The Santa Fe used Dearborn Street Station while the Pennsy used Union Station.
I can't imagine folks being allowed to stay on a sleeper as it was being switched over without any heat or cooling to say nothing of being jostled around by a switcher or delays of movement. The passengers would still have to walk, use a cab or Keeshin Motor Service to get to the other station.
Rusty
"Beginning in March of 1946, the train(Broadway Limited) began handling through 4-4-2 sleeping cars transferred at Chicago to and from Los Angeles via the Santa Fe's Famous Chief(and later Super Chief). The service would last until October 1957." Welsh, Joe. Pennsylvania Railroad's Broadway Limited. Voyageur Press, 2006.
Interestingly enough from 46 to 47 it also says the eastbound Broadway Limited would carry a LA to New York
Rock island Sleeper.
For those who maybe skeptical here is a link to the google Books version.
