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The Florida Trade

Chicago To Florida

Pennsylvania Railroad

The Pennsy has a less dominant role in western Florida service than it does in the east: being merely one of four routes by which one may travel from Chicago to the Ohio River.

New York Central System

Illinois Central

Chicago & Eastern Illinois

Louisville & Nashville

Nashville, Chatnaooga & St. Louis

The NC & StL is a highly localized, but significant Florida player. Florida traffic enters at Nashville, travels southeast and exits at Atlanta

Southern Railway

Atlantic Coast Line

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Note: this topic has been modified because many of the well known trains in Florida service came into being after the June 1935 timeline used in other Topics. Because of this, each route has one section with the 6/35 trains and a second section with later trains. In some cases, trains are listed in both their 1935 heavyweight versions and their later lightweight versions.

NOTE: refer to The Glossary for a summary of how to interpret the train listings below.

Effective 2/35

• Dixieland -

C&EI - L&N (trains 90-91) Chicago via Evansville to Jacksonville,

 

• Flyer -

C&EI - L&N - ACL (trains 94-95) Chicago via Evansville to Jacksonville,

 

 

• Limited -

C&EI - L&N - ACL (trains 92-93) Chicago via Evansville to Jacksonville,

 

• South Wind -

PRR - L&N - ACL - FEC (trains 15-16) Chicago via Louisville to Miami, streamlined, , premiere, 3rd day (seasonal)

 

• Southland -

PRR - L&N - ACL (trains 32-33) Chicago via Louisville to St. Petersburg, streamlined, , premiere,

 

• Florida Arrow -

- L&N - ACL (trains 9-10) Chicago via to Jacksonville,

 

• Flamingo -

L&N - ACL (trains 17-18) Cincinnati to Jacksonville,

 

• Seminole -

IC,

 

• Floridian -

IC,

 

• Royal Palm -

NYC - Sou Ry - FEC Chicago via Cincinnatti to Miami

 

• Royal Palm Deluxe -

NYC - Sou Ry - FEC Chicago via Cincinnatti to Miami- seasonal,

 

 

Illustrations:

 

• Ponce De Leon -

NYC - Sou Ry - FEC Chicago via Cincinnatti to Miami,

 

• Kansas City-Florida Special -

Frisco - Sou Ry Kansas City to Jacksonville (points in Florida)

 

• Suwanee River Special -

midwest to Fla west coast

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