Before it was streamlined, the PRR connection to the MP SUNSHINE SPECIAL to Texas was a train of the same name. Then when the MP introduced the TX EAGLE, the PRR connecting train was the same name. Then it went to PENN TEXAS. Why the change? MP did not like it? The PRR train carried cars for SL-SF and Katy trains; did they not like the name??? Interesting!
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I remember the Penn-Texas, but the Texas Eagle on the PRR must have been before my railfanning days.
Lee
THE PENN TEXAS:
Est. 12/12/1948 by renaming the PRR portion of the TEXAS EAGLE; #3-4; superseded THE
AMERICAN as second-ranked train on St. Louis run; carries through cars to Southwest via St.
Louis gateway to Missouri Pacific and Missouri-Kansas-Texas; MKT cars dropped 1/5/1959; MP
cars dropped 6/30/61; #3 discontinued eff. 6/30/1970; #4 renamed "SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS"
10/1/1970.
Did the PRR have any cars painted MP blue & gray to match the Eagle?
I think maybe the B&O had some to match the Eagle.
Dan
Did the PRR have any cars painted MP blue & gray to match the Eagle?
I think maybe the B&O had some to match the Eagle.
Dan
The PRR owned 11 ACF 10 roomette-6 double bedroom sleepers, built in 1950, that were painted in MP colors (blue and grey, with THE EAGLE in bold letter mid-car, and smaller P.R.R. lettering near the car ends). These were assigned to through service to Texas on the PENN TEXAS and the TEXAS EAGLE. These cars were eventually repainted to tuscan red and renamed into PRR's RAPIDS series (7 in 1964, 4 in 1966). See Dubin's MORE CLASSIC TRAINS, page 160, for a picture of EAGLE OAK.
Two B&O cars, Cascade Melody and Cascade Drive operated on the MoPac between
1948 and 1961. I assume the car assignments were to balance the 14-4 Eagle cars
MoPac had in service to Washington, DC. These two cars were painted in MoPac
colors with "B&O" on the letterboard ends.
Ricky
PRR also had a few cars painted for the TX SPECIAL, which ran on the PENN TX>
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