Even with the addition of the new roads and bridges around the Pensacola area the main mode of travel outside of the city was still the passenger trains of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company. To keep up with the times they were periodically changed the train schedules for the convenience of their passengers. For instance, one of the 1927 changes that occurred on August 1st served to open even more available destinations for the citizens.
By 1935 the L&N Company was advertising their prices at .03 per “one way” mile in a Pullman car and .01½ per mile for a regular coach seat. These trains were the life blood of Pensacola and continued to dominate America’s landscape until the advent of the aviation era in the 1950’s.
The L&N "Hummingbird" that traveled the local tracks in the late 1940's and 1950's
The passenger train's dining car of the 40's and 50's
The passenger train's sleeper cars of the 40's and 50's
Early 1950's commercial airline
Boarding a commercial airliner prior to the advent of terrorism 1955. This plane was on its Caribbean run for the British airways at the Antigua Airport in 1955. Boarding is Mildred Louise Davis Ward heading back to Atmore, AL