Southern Railway passenger schedule for October 1974.

This is the passenger schedule for the Southern Railway for October 21, 1974.

The Southern Railway was still operating its passenger trains as a private corporation at this time and still had not joined Amtrak.

Train #1, "The Southern Crescent" ran from New York to New Orleans via Atlanta with a dining car from Washington to Atlanta(daily), Atlanta to New Orleans(tri-weekly Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday southbound; northbound on Monday. Wednesday, Friday), tavern lounge car Washington to Atlanta(daily), bar-food car(operates four time a week to and from Birminghan and Atlanta, westbound Mondays, Wednesday, Fridays and Saturday, eastbound Sundays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays), parlor-dome car Atlanta to New Orleans(21 parlor seats--Tuesdays, Thurdays, Sunday westbound--Monday, Wednesday, Fridays eastbound, coaches from Washington to Birmingham--operates on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday westbound--eastbound on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday, Washington to New Orleans--operates on same days as above coach to Birmingham, Washington to Atlanta(daily), New York to New Orleans(operates from New York on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday, New Orleans to New York on Monday, Wednesday and Friday), New York to Birmingham(daily)--all coaches were 52 seats and reserved in advance. Sleepers from Washington to Atlanta(drawing room, master room, buffet-lounge--daily), Washington to Atlanta(10 roomettes, 6 double bedrooms--daily), New York to Birmingham(10 roomettes, 6 double bedrooms)--operated from New York on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday, Birmingham on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, New York to Los Angeles(10 roomettes, 6 double bedrooms) from New York on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday, from Los Angeles on Tueday, Friday, Sunday. This trancontinental sleeper could be occupied in New Orleans until connecting train departed.

Train #3, operated from Salisbury to Asheville tri weekly with a coach and a dome coach. The train operated on Sudnay, Tuesday, and Friday. This is the remains of the "Asheville Special" that operated for many years from New York.

Train #7, operated from New York to Lynchburg with coaches only from Washington to Lynchburg.

Train #5, "The Piedmont" ran from Washington to Atlanta with a grill-coach.

This is all that remained of the passenger train service of the Southern Railway that for many years operated throughout the South with superb service.

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