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Southbound, early evening departures from Washington ( which had left New York in mid-afternoon ) ran as an all-Pullman limited from Washington, and arrived the next morning in Atlanta in time for a full business day there as well.

Even though the train carried coaches ( and made more " day coach " stops ) between Atlanta and New Orleans southbound, it arrived in the early evening in the Crescent City in time to connect with the originating westbound Sunset Limited, destined for Texas and California.

In mid-century, through sleepers were offered between these two trains, creating for a time, if not a single transcontinental train route, a transcontinental Pullman service, in which a passenger's sleeping accommodation would travel with him or her from New York City all the way to Los Angeles.