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29. A pair of Alco PA-2s in the “Bloody Nose” scheme bring Day-
light train #99 toward San Francisco on this chilly November day
in 1964. In the foreground are strings of sugar beet gondolas.
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Southern Railway east of New Orleans. With these improve-
ments made, the ICC permitted the SP to cut the Sunset’s
operation to three days a week.
Reported consists at this time period varied so much that it
does not appear possible to diagram the train with a typical
consist. When the combined Daylight-Sunset operated, there
was a very complicated pattern of equipment use which is
described in the chart. This arrangement lasted until the start
of Amtrak in 1971. The days the Sunset was not operating, the
30. Diagram of Daylight consist for peak and off peak periods
1964 and for 1969.
