[78-L] ^White Christmas

Mark Bardenwerper citrogsa at charter.net.invalid
Tue Dec 25 13:19:27 PST 2018


On 12/25/2018 2:57 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> Here you go, from the man who knows.
>
> --
>
> There was no direct service from Miami to Vermont, nor is there now.  They
> would have had to change trains at New York's Penn Station, which is where all
> the Florida trains terminated and originated; there was no Florida service
> available out of Grand Central Terminal.
>
> The fastest trip from Miami to NY Penn Station would have been on a name train
> such as the East Coast Champion or the Silver Meteor, which would have taken 24
> to 25 hours.  A connecting train from Penn Station would have then taken them
> to Vermont, which would have added another five to 10 hours, dependent on the
> final destination within the state.
>
> The two pieces of stock footage used in that portion of the film are a Santa Fe
> San Diegan on the coast south of Los Angeles and a Southern Pacific secondary
> long-haul train with several mail and express cars right behind the
> locomotives.  Neither railway ever got anywhere near Florida or Vermont.
>
> */Greg Gormick/*
> */On Track Strategies/*
> */Oshawa, Ontario/*
> */  and/*
> */Studio City, California/*
Excellent!

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Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr.
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