Orange Blossom Special (train)

The Orange Blossom Special was a luxury passenger train of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad between New York City and the holiday resorts on the east coast of Florida. On November 21, 1925, he took on his first commercial operation. The train consisted entirely of Pullman cars and the use was more expensive than that of a normal train.

History

The route of the procession led from New York to Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Richmond, Raleigh, Columbia, Savannah and Jacksonville to Miami. The train left at 9:30 clock from in New York and reached Miami at 22:00 clock the following day.

Due to the economic downturn during the Great Depression of the train has been set. He was then in 1934, this time with modern air-conditioned streamlined cars and diesel locomotives ( as of 1938 ) revived as streamlined train. According to the schedule of 7 January 1934, the train ran daily at 12:30 clock from New York and led through car to Miami, Saint Petersburg and Venice. Miami he arrived at 18:55 clock the next day.

During the period of the Second World War there was another for operation setting. The train in April 1953. Especially the competition by car, plane or other trains was finally set made ​​an economic further operation impossible.

Adaptation in country music

Following this train 1938 Ervin T. Rouse, Chubby Wise Robert Russell and composed a fiddle tune. The inclusion of Bill Monroe 1942, the song Orange Blossom Special was popular.