Nostalgia & History > Thru sleeper Pittsburgh to FEC?

Seth Bramson's FEC book says thru sleepers
from Pittsburgh and from Buffalo ran south on
FEC, presumably to Miami. Would that have
to be via Washington, or was there some other way?

No such thing in the 1/27 Guide

https://timetableworld.com/ttw-viewer.php?token=d6404557-437b-4060-b06d-7a9005ca91f9

but it does show the Quebec-Miami sleeper.

Another routing could be via the line to Cincinnati.  Lots of options going south from there.

AA

Stanford White
Carmel Valley, CA

seasonal ?

Pretty sure that Pittsburgh sleeper went west to Chicago and then to Jacksonville on the South Wind.
—Mac 

Try the January 1930 Official Guide

https://timetableworld.com/ttw-viewer.php?token=aa6cd0d2-31b2-4ed3-b6a1-a553f73d9f64

 

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Sure nuff -- looks like both were via Harrisburg and Washington.

The February 1926 Official Guide (page 606) shows through sleeping cars from Cleveland, Buffalo, Grand Rapids, and Detroit to Jacksonville / Miami on the Florida East Coast.  Carried on the Royal Palm via Cincinnati and Chattanooga

The West Indian Limited carried sleepers from Quebec to Jacksonville /  Miami

On page 580, the Seaboard Air Line advertises through sleeping cars from Erie (PA) Buffalo, and Pittsburgh to Miami on the Pennsylvania railroad through DC

(This may have been the last hurrah for south Florida. Two devastating hurricanes, a real estate crash, and the Great Depression were on the cards)