Daylight ran by itself, with chair cars and an automat car only,
plus the parlor observation car two days out of three.
An interesting operation on a model railroad emulating some
of this would be to turn back part of a train at an intermediate
point on certain days of the week, running the complete train
through to the end of the line.
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31. The Coast Daylight of 1969 with the parlor observation car,
one of the rare rebuilt chair cars with its old fluted sides, and a
postwar flush-side coach.
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32. Ahead of the chair cars on the ’69 Daylight is an automat
buffet car, economy baggage car, and an SDP45 diesel.
33 (next spread). Chart showing the rotation of Daylight and
Sunset consists of 1970, based on the original railroad diagram.
34 (below). Diagrams showing one of the various combined
Daylight/Sunset consists of 1970, and the consists of the Day-
light of 1970.
