Pullman cars on Southern trains

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Would any of you have any information on the Pullman sleeping cars used on the Southern passenger trains the Birmingham Special, the Pelican and the Tennessean? Also is there any corresponding models for these cars?
Lois J.Ponton
N&W steam historian
When inaugurated on May 18, 1941, The Tennessean was predominately a streamlined coach train
Washington-Bristol.   It did carry a heavyweight 10 section, 3 double bedroom sleeper Washington-
Memphis.  Beyond the N&W, it picked up a Bristol-Nashville sleeper (NC&StL beyond Chattanooga)
and a Chattanooga-Memphis 12 section, 1 Drawing room sleeper.


>From Passenger Train Consists of the 1940s, here's how No. 45 stood leaving Knocksville, TN

on March 21, 1945:

SOU 1701     Grand Junction     Baggage-Mail
SOU 1750     Decatur                 Mail storage 
SOU  705      Bedford                 Baggage-Dormitory-Coach
N&W 1705                                 Coach
N&W 1704                                 Coach
SOU  905      Morristown           Coach
SOU 3304     Alexandria           Dining car
SOU   806     Huntsville            Coach
Sou    813     Lynchburg           Coach
SOU 1150      Washington         Tavern-Lounge
Villa Nova                                 10 Sections, 3 Double Bedrooms (Wash-Memphis)
Brentwood                                12 Sections, 1 Drawing Room (Bristol-Nashville via NC&StL)
McRae                                       12 Sections, 1 Drawing Room (Deadhead?)

Lightweight sleepers came to The Tennessean in 1949.  The one that comes to mind
was built in 1949 to Plan 4153C  --- SOU 2210 - Wauhatchie Valley.  It was on the
last No. 46 leaving Memphis and I suspect it was scrapped in Roanoke.  Harry Bundy
  

  






 
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