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    • Source: City of Memphis (train)

      • The City of Memphis was a 236.8-mile (381.1 km) passenger train route operated by the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway connecting Nashville's Nashville Union Station and Memphis, Tennessee's Memphis Union Station.


      History


      The City of Memphis was powered by one of the last steam locomotives ever streamlined. The six cars were all rebuilt and streamlined by the NC&StL shops from heavyweight cars. The six cars were originally Pullman Heavyweight Parlor Cars before purchase by the NC&STL for conversion to coaches in June 1941.
      The six car consist had a revenue seating capacity of 204 and was built to operate on a fast five-hour schedule between Nashville and Memphis a distance of 239 miles (385 km). The train set operated a daily round trip and lasted beyond the 1957 Louisville and Nashville Railroad takeover of the NC&StL, although the name was removed from the service by 1955.


      Equipment



      To equip the train the railroad rebuilt six heavyweight Pullman parlor cars. The resulting train consisted of a baggage-mail car, a coach-dinette-lounge, two 56-seat coaches, a dining-tavern car, and a coach-lounge-observation car. Several of the train's cars survive, including the coach-lounge-observation, which is part of the collection of the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in the Chattanooga area.


      Notes




      References


      Holland, Kevin J. (2003). "The Frugal Approach". Classic Trains Special Edition. No. 1, Dream Trains. ISSN 1541-809X.
      Rieves, George (Summer 2000). "City of Memphis: The Budget Streamliner". Classic Trains. Vol. 1, no. 2. ISSN 1527-0718.
      Rieves, George (2017). "The Budget Streamliner". In McGonigal, Robert S. (ed.). Great Trains Heartland. Waukesha, Wisconsin: Kalmbach Publishing. pp. 102–105. ISBN 978-1-62700-497-8.
      Wayner, Robert J., ed. (1972). Car Names, Numbers and Consists. New York: Wayner Publications. OCLC 8848690.


      External links


      1950 timetable
      Burns, Adam. "The NC&StL's City of Memphis". AmericanRails.com. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
      Condren, Mike. "Nashville Chattanooga & St. Louis Passenger Trains - City of Memphis Streamliner". Mike Condren's Railroad Pages. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
      "The "City Of Memphis" Stream-Lined Passenger Train". TheWatchers.com. Retrieved 4 January 2014.

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