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Route details: cut back to Atlanta-Washington by 1967
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Aside from the above cited cities, the train served Newark, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Lynchburg, Charlottesville, Greensboro, Charlotte, Spartanburg, Greenville, Gainesville, Mobile and Gulfport.<ref>Southern timetable, July 1952 Table B http://streamlinermemories.info/South/SOU52TT.pdf</ref>
 
A spur branch served Birmingham, but this was eliminated by 1964.<ref>Southern timetable, April 1964, Table B http://streamlinermemories.info/South/SRR64-4TT.pdf</ref> WithAmid the postwar decline ofin passenger rail inservice, theby 1960s and 1970s,1967 the train was eventually cut back to an Atlanta-Washington daytime service, supplementing the then-''Southern Crescent'' along its middle leg. In 1975, its southern terminus was truncated to Charlotte.
 
By the time it was discontinued in 1976, the once-proud train had seen its southern terminus cut back to [[Salisbury, North Carolina]].<ref name=CoxDixie/>