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January 3, 2019 at 5:29 am #9207
Bill Pollard
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    For those who are into the details… here is a list of the Pullman routes operated over the Missouri Pacific in the five years before service ended on New Year’s day 1969. A word about numbers…. there were car numbers (on the side of the car, along with the car name), loading numbers (the illuminated number in the car window which also appeared on your ticket), and line numbers. The “line number” as cited below was assigned by Pullman, usually blocks of numbers for each railroad. The line number was more of an accounting tool to identify specific routes, or specific car lines when multiple cars operated over the same route. A few railroads listed the line number in the public timetable, but MP was not one of them. This information was gathered from “History of Lines” volumes, and yearly financial statements 1-14B, all preserved for research at the Newberry Library in Chicago.

    MP and TP Pullman lines operating from January 1, 1964 through December 31, 1968

    LINE

    Endpoints

    Date Discontinued
    3300 St Louis-Laredo-Mexico City– 12-31-1968
    3306 St Louis-Fort Worth– 12-31-1968
    3314 St Louis-Kansas City– 12-12-1966
    3333 St Louis-Denver– 1-31-1964, operated St Louis-Kansas City, sleeper as parlor until 2-6-1964
    3334 St Louis-Denver– 1-31-1964, operated St Louis-Kansas City, sleeper as parlor until 2-29-1964
    3353 Chicago-Hot Springs (via GM&O)– 1-21-1964, operated St Louis-Little Rock until 1-26-1964
    3385 New Orleans-Houston– 2-1-1964
    3641 Houston-Brownsville– 2-1-1964
    3703 St Louis-Houston– 12-31-1968
    3704 St Louis-San Antonio– 11-10-1968
    3710 St Louis-Hot Springs– 1-21-1964, operated St Louis-Little Rock until 1-23-1964
    3710 St Louis-Little Rock– started 11-17-1967, discontinued 2-12-1968 90-day experimental service after line 3731 discontinued
    3731 St Louis-Lake Charles– shortened to St Louis-Alexandria 1-8-1964; discontinued 11-16-1967
    4085 St Louis-Fort Worth– 10-17-1966
    4430 St Louis-Denver– 1-7-1964
    4442 Baltimore-San Antonio– 5-19-1964, Slumbercoach in conjunction with B&O