Southern Railroad Streamliner

I got a set of those cars too as I thought they looked cool!! But the are not prototypical so train name doesn't matter much. But the SRR name trains were Crescent, NO to NYC and the Tennessean....sure there are other...experts chime in. I am using my cars behind a Tennessean steam train.....so do what you like!

Just a few"name trains" that toddled to NYC and return:The Southerner, The Royal Palm, The Peach Queen, The Piedmont Limited and many others.

The "Tennessean"[May 1941] was Washington to Memphis and return with connections to NYC.[In 1941 the "Tennessean" 4-6-2 D.C. to Lynchburg, N&W  "J" over the mountains to Bristol and initially E6s the rest of the run to Memphis. Eventually became all Southern diesel, the E7s would work well there for postwar years.

The E7s began to arrive on the Southern in 1947 as postwar production cranked back up. 

Here's a list of Southern Passenger trains with consist information from 1940 to 1972.

Southerner, Train 47, New York to New Orleans, arriving
N.O., Mar 18, 1947
SOU 2802 E-6A
SOU 705 Bedford Bag-dorm-coach
SOU 806 Huntsville Coach
SOU 804 Georgia Coach
SOU 3302 Virginia Diner
SOU 801 Maryland Coach
SOU 808 Sheffield Coach
SOU 1102 Louisiana tavern Lounge Observation car
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Skyland Special, Sou train 24, Jacksonville to Asheville,
departing Savannah on Mar 10, 1946
SOU 1253 4-6-2 steam
SOU 406 Bag-Exp car
SOU 4056 Bag-Exp
SOU 697 Bag-coach
SOU 1646 Coach
SOU 1631 Coach
McCain 12 sec - 1 drawing room
Point Lay 10 sect - 2 drawing rooms
Sou 1414 Coach
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Crescent, train 37, New York to New Orleans, departing
Lynchburg, VA Jan 16, 1940

SOU 1395 4-6-2 steam
SOU 31 postal car
W.C.C. Claiborne bag-buffet-club car
Park Road 14 sections
Andrew Pickens 10 sec - 1 drawing room - 2dbl bed rm
SOU 3170 diner
Canonbury Tower 8 sec - 1drawing rm - 3dbl bed rm
William Davidson 8 sec - 5 dbl bd rm
Winthrop College 10 sec - 1 compart - 2 drawing rm
Zebulon B. Vance 10 sec - 2 drawing rm
Robert E Lee 3 compart - 2 draw rm - lounge observation
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Tennessean, tr. 45, Washington to Memphis, departing Wash.
DC on 1/11/47
SOU 2912 E-7A
SOU 2907 E-7A
SOU 22 postal
SOU 349 Bag-exp
SOU 703 Cleveland bag-dorm-coach
SOU 1200 coach
SOU 1547 coach
SOU 904 Loudon coach
SOU 3303 Chattanooga diner
SOU 812 Charlottesville coach
SOU 807 Buntyn coach
SOU 1152 Memphis tavern-lounge-obs
James W. Sloss 12sec-1 drawing rm
Jennings 12 sec - 1 draw rm
Villa Verde 10 sec - 3 dbl br
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New Yorker, SOU tr. 40, Atlanta to New York, departing
Atlanta Jan 13, 1948
SOU 2914 E7A
SOU 2915 E7A
PRR 6288 bag.
N&W 134 bag-exp
SOU 272 bag-mail
PRR 7838 bag-exp
SOU 660 bag-coach
SOU 1203 coach
SOU 1005 coach
SOU 3163 diner
General Longstreet 10 sec - lounge
Robert Toombs 10sec - 2 dr rm
Lake Mitchell 10 sec -1 dr rm- 2 cmpts
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Crescent, tr 37, New York to New Orleans, departing
Washington on Apr 9, 1968

SOU 6913 E-8A
SOU 2924 E-8A
SOU 2920 E-7A
SOU 1750 Decatur bag-mail storage car
SOU 837 coach
SOU 3399 coach
SOU 3789 coach
SOU 815 coach
SOU 821 coach
SOU 2010 Rapidan River 10 rmt-6 dbr
SOU 3307 diner
SOU 2023 Warrior River 10rmt-6dbr
PRR 8355 Patapsco River 10rmt-6dbr
SOU 2353 Crescent Shores 1master room-2 dr rm-buffet-lounge
SOU 2019 Tugalo River 10rmt-6dbr
SOU Carolina Business car
SOU Virginia Business car
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Southern Crescent, train1, Washington to New Orleans,
departing Atlanta 11/26/72
SOU 6903 E-8A
SOU 6912 E-8A
SOU 6904 E-8A
SOU 711 bag-dorm
SOU 816 caoch
Amtrak 5602 coach
SOU 840 coach
SOU 821 coach
SOU 2012 Saluda River 10rmt-6dbr
SOU 3400 Emory River 10rmt-6dbr
SOU 2008 Pacolet River 10rmt-6dbr
SOU Shenandoah River 10rmt-6dbr
SOU 3311 diner
SOU 1602 dome parlor car
SOU 6 business car

Dave, Dewey, & Sean,

Thanks for all the info, just opened up the passenger cars today. the WBB 6 car set came with 1 baggage, 5 coach, and 1 observation. would of been nice to have a diner car, but I knew these were not prototype. they do have the name The Tennessean under the windows. the E7 AA set is coming today, although not correct to southern standards by the info sean gave it will still look nice.

The Williams E7 will not be lettered for any named trains on the Southern but it will have the as delivered "Pelican" paint scheme that was used on early orders of E7 E6 and Passengers F3's

On the Southern Ry it is prototypical to run Heavyweights as headend cars in the came consist along with the silver lightweight cars. We never saw this in advertisements or promotional photos but often 2-4 REA or RPO Heavyweight cars were upfront including on the name trains. Simple reason,the headend cars were good revenue producers whereas the passenger cars were losers. 

When Brosnan was President of Southern he even made management couple container cars on the rear of Eastern Lines passenger trains.