Flamingo (train)

Flamingo
Overview
Service type Inter-city rail
Status Discontinued
Locale Midwestern United States/Southeastern United States
First service September 27, 1925
Last service March 7, 1968
Former operator(s) Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Route
Start Cincinnati, Ohio
Stops Winchester, KY; Knoxville, TN; Cartersville, GA; Atlanta, GA; Albany, GA
End Jacksonville, Florida
Distance travelled 886 miles (1,426 km)
Service frequency Daily
Train number(s) 17 (southbound), 18 (northbound)

The Flamingo was a passenger night train operated by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.

History

Inaugurated on September 27, 1925, it operated between Cincinnati and Jacksonville, Florida, with sleeper service between Cincinnati Union Station and Atlanta Union Station. South of Atlanta, towards Jacksonville, it was operated in conjunction with the Central of Georgia Railway and the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.[1] In Jacksonville riders could continue their trips to elsewhere in Florida on various ACL branch lines that served different parts of the state, such as St. Petersburg, Sarasota (via Orlando and Tampa), Ft. Myers and Miami. The Southland operated on different schedule on the same Cincinnati to Jacksonville route.

An empty oil tanker that had been attached to a north-bound freight train came loose and hit and wrecked the Flamingo near Falmouth, Kentucky in 1957. The injured received care at a local hospital.[2]

Service was truncated to Atlanta in 1962 and discontinued on March 7, 1968.[1]

The dining car, originally built in 1948, was restored and returned to service by the Kentucky-Indiana Rail Advocates in 1998, serving up food on the dinner train from original recipes like seafood gumbo, lamb, plum pudding, and ham with red eye gravy.[3]

Major stations served

References

  1. 1 2 "The Flamingo". American Rails. Retrieved August 3, 2017.
  2. ↑ Penny Tuemler Conrad (2010). Pendleton County. Arcadia Publishing. p. 45. ISBN 978-0-7385-8621-2.
  3. ↑ "Recipes from L&N Revived". November 22, 1998. p. 4. Retrieved August 3, 2017 – via newspapers.com. (Subscription required (help)).

Further reading

  • Maury Klein (December 6, 2013). History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-4675-1.
  • The Railroad Journal. 1947.
  • United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board. Third Division. Awards. Third Division, National Railroad Adjustment Board. p. 364.

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