dbo:abstract
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- The Dixie Flyer was a premier named passenger train that operated from 1892 to 1965 via the "Dixie Route" from Chicago and St. Louis via Evansville, Nashville, and Atlanta to Florida. However, the train persisted to 1969 as an Atlanta to Florida operation, solely run by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and its successor. The Flyer's route varied in early years, but by about 1920 was set as follows:
* Chicago and Eastern Illinois (C&EI), Chicago (Dearborn Station) to Evansville (Louisville and Nashville Railroad Station), or
* Louisville and Nashville (L&N), St. Louis to Evansville section
* Louisville and Nashville, Evansville to Nashville (Nashville Union Station)
* Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis (NC&StL), Nashville to Atlanta (Atlanta Union Station)
* Central of Georgia (CofG), Atlanta to Albany (Albany Union Station), via Macon
* Atlantic Coast Line (ACL), Albany to Jacksonville
* Florida East Coast (FEC), Jacksonville to Miami, or
* Atlantic Coast Line, Jacksonville to Tampa and Sarasota, and Jacksonville to St. Petersburg sections (en)
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