Location Guesses?

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Ken Miller is correct.  In checking a 1937 N&W timetable the Memphis Special 
is the only Southern train which could be photographed in the Roanoke 
vacinity in daylight.  Both the Birmingham Special (17-18) and the New York, 
Chattanooga and New Orleans Limited (41-42) passed through Roanoke either 
after dark or very early in the morning.  The new streamlined Tennessean 
replaced the Memphis Special on much the same schedule except eastbound its 
Roanoke stop was about 3 hours earlier in the afternoon.  Number 41-42 was 
renamed The Pelican in the late 1940's.

--Rick Morrison

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> Hello, all:
>
> The attached 1940 photo appears to be the consist of either the Pelican or 
> the Tennessean.
>
> Happy holidays,
>
> Frank Scheer
> f_scheer at yahoo.com


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