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Re: Diner fare on the SP

david boehmer — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:24:21 GMT

Thanks John. Seems the fare was better than what was on the Katy Menus.I wish I could remember what my mom,sister Diana,and I ate on The Twin Star Rocket going

Re: Diner fare on the SP

Ken Harrison — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:00:32 GMT

... Didn't you know that, Jeff? Where have you been? k

Re: Diner fare on the SP

Jeff Cauthen — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:56:51 GMT

Howard, Automats provided a huge savings in costs to SP as very few passengers were using the diners and coffee shop cars by 1961/1962. It's pretty well

Re: Diner fare on the SP

Howard Bingham — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:05:39 GMT

... -- It was the elimination of dining car service & dropping sleepers from long distance trains.. Automat cars supposedly were a cheap substitute of a diner

Dinner in the Diner on the Sunset

Ed Workman — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:52:07 GMT

I was 16 in the summer of 1959 when I went with my next older brother to get his car in Georgia, drive to NYC and returned by PRR from N Phila to Chicago and

Re: Diner fare on the SP

Jeff Cauthen — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:17:15 GMT

The automat cars caused the creation of Amtrak??? Really Jeff Jeff Cauthen La Mesa California 619.741.7515 ... From: ke5apj

Re: Goliad Depot

Ron Pereida — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:07:40 GMT

The location is just one block from the Historical Courthouse Square in Goliad. It is located just behind a Visitor / Museum Building and yes, across the

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alastair mclennan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:33:55 GMT

I've twice tried to reply to an mail from Yahoo groups without success. The answer to your probable query is that I'm trying to join the SP pre-1960 group in

Re: Diner fare on the SP

ke5apj — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:36:23 GMT

To see what the Sunset car consist appeared like in 1968, take a look at the home page picture on SunsetFriends list.. (A complete set of the photos are in the

Re: Diner fare on the SP

Grover Dixon — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:49:09 GMT

I ate several times on the Sunset Limited between Houston and Los Angeles and Los Angeles and Portland during the '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s and found the

Re: Diner fare on the SP

Jeff Cauthen — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:53:21 GMT

Please see "DINNER IS SERVED, Fine Dinning Aboard the Southern Pacific, by Jim A. Loveland, Golden West Books, 1996, ISBN No. 0-87095-112-2 Jeff Jeff

Re: Diner fare on the SP

John Patterson — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:39:09 GMT

About three or four years ago,I was at a Train Show in Fort Worth and I found a a couple of Menus for the Sunbeam and Sunset for sale. A Light Bulb Came On In

Diner fare on the SP

boehmer1955 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:53:05 GMT

I am curious as to the food served on SP Dining cars. I looked at a Katy Diner menu and it seemed pretty sparse and pricey for the time. Sid the SP have

Re: SunBeam Hustler obs, De Ridder Depot

david boehmer — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:44:56 GMT

Thank you guys for your response and knowledge. I was pretty sure the said SP trains from Houston to Dallas. Did have parlor observation cars. But had no proof

Re: Stories an old SP Engineer told me

rollindb@... — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:16:02 GMT

You are correct Henry. However, the SA&AP enginemen's work north of Yoakum had been consolidated into the Austin H&TC enginemen's seniority. All of the H&TC