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Transcontinental sleeper transfer

By Angela Cotey | December 25, 2023

| Last updated on August 8, 2025


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In October 1950, a Chesapeake & Ohio 0-8-0 moves sleeping car Surprise Valley through the interlocking at 21st Street, Chicago. The car arrived at Grand Central Station on Baltimore & Ohio’s Capitol Limited from Washington in the morning and departed from Dearborn Station on Santa Fe’s Chief to Los Angeles later in the day.
Wallace W. Abbey photo