Southern Railway
Streamliners to the Palms
1949 An order for twelve E7A's was delivered to Southern in 1949, including #2919 (shown above). At that time SR ran a varied fleet of passenger trains into Jacksonville including the Royal Palm, Ponce de Leon and the seasonal streamliner New Royal Palm by way of Valdosta GA. The Kansas City - Florida Special and Skyland Special entered Florida via Jesup GA on trackage rights with Atlantic Coast Line.
1952 The New Royal Palm, December 1952
Via New York Central, Southern Railway (Cincinnati - Jacksonville) & Florida East Coast Ry.
| SB #9 | NB #10 | Car Route | Car Type |
| RP-1 | RP-1 | Cincinnati - Miami | 22 reserved seat coach |
| RP-2 | RP-2 | Cincinnati - Miami | 54 reserved seat coach |
| RP-3 | RP-3 | Detroit - Miami | 54 reserved seat coach |
| Cincinnati - Miami | Diner - Lounge | ||
| 709 | F709 | Buffalo - Miami | 14 roomette - 4 dbl bdrm |
| 708 | F708 | Cleveland - Miami | 10 roomette - 6 dbl bdrm |
| 707 | F707 | Cleveland - Miami | 10 roomette - 6 dbl bdrm |
| Cincinnati - Miami | Dining Car | ||
| 706 | F706 | Cincinnati - Miami | 10 roomette - 6 dbl bdrm |
| 705 | F705 | Detroit - Miami | 13 dbl bedroom |
| 704 | F704 | Detroit - Miami | 10 roomette - 6 dbl bdrm |
| 702 | F702 | Detroit - Miami | 4 compartment - 2 drawing rm - 4 dbl bdrm |
| 700 | F700 | Detroit - Miami | 5 dbl bdrm - Buffet - Observation |
1953 Southern promoted its Florida passenger train fleet with the requisite bathing beauties and palm trees. Through sleeping cars from the Midwest finished the dash to the Miami sunshine over the Florida East Coast Railway.
Original line drawing art by Stan Lytle, enhanced with road colors and other details by Jack Bleiberg.
About color schemes: The image of Southern #2919 and the colors on this page show Southern Railway's green, white and gold.
