PART 1 – SP PASSENGER TRAINS |
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The streamlined Sunbeamwas
painted in the Daylight colors
with the “Sunbeam” name
on the car plaques. Three P-6
class Harriman Heavy Pacific
type 4-6-2 steam engines were
rebuilt and restyled for this ser-
vice with new Boxpok drivers
and sheet metal streamlining
patterned after the Daylight
4-8-4 streamlined engines.
Each consist had a lightweight
baggage express car, a stand-
alone chair car, two articulated
chair car pairs, a parlor car
(similar to the Daylight’s but
without a stateroom) and a
diner-lounge-observation car.
The Hustler (train #15, 16)
was the heavyweight train on
a morning schedule between
Dallas and Houston. Beginning
June 5, 1938, the Hustler began
an interesting tandem operating pattern with the Sunbeam.
Each morning, the Sunbeam cars without the parlor car departed
from both Dallas and Houston running as the Hustler. On arrival at
their respective terminals the trains were cleaned, the parlor cars
were cut in and the two consists departed in the afternoon operat-
ing as the Sunbeam.
