Joe Magruder Wrote:
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> The Lark was the sleeping car train, I think the
> coach train was the Starlight, not sure. It was
> only in its last decade or so that the Lark became
> a coach and sleeping car train.

Yes. It's irrelevant to the error I pointed out in my previous post. The Starlight ran from 1949-1957. SP discontinued the Noon Daylight and Coaster and moved the Noon Daylight's consist to the new Starlight on roughly the Coaster's old schedule. It was the overnight coach train, but most people don't realize it carried a heavyweight sleeping car also. The Lark was all Pullman for many years but added a Daylight articulated chair car before the Starlight was discontinued. Of course the Lark was mixed coach and sleeper after the Statlight was discontinued.