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CAM #34 Los Angeles-New York

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CAM #34 started as a passenger route on July 8, 1929.  It was concieved as a train, plane concept to travel the United States in 48 hours.  Passenger would board the train in New York or Washington DC and travel through the night, awaking in the morning to a breakfast before boarding the TAT plane at Port Columbus where they flew through the daylight hours to the new Waynoka landing fielding, upon landing they were met by an Aero Car that transported them to the Santa Fe train depot in Waynoka, where they again boarded the train for night travel to Clovis, New Mexico, in the morning they again traveled by plane to Los Angeles.  A very good description was written by Ernie Pyle in

Inauguration of Service
July 8, 1929

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Schedule

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Pennsylvania Railroad
"The Airway Limited"    
6:05 P.M. E.T. Leave New York City Arrive 9:50 A.M. E.T.
Dinner and Breakfast on Pennsylvania Railroad dining car
7:55 A.M. E.T.

Arrive

Port Columbus Leave 7:46 P.M. E.T.
(A new station stop seven miles East of Columbus, Ohio) "The Airway Limited"
Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc.
8:15 A.M.  E.T. Leave Port Columbus Arrive 7:13 P.M.  E.T.
9:13 A.M. C.T. Arrive Indianapolis Leave 4:37 P.M. C.T.
9:28 A.M. C.T. Leave Indianapolis Arrive 4:22 P.M. C.T.
12:03 P.M. C.T. Arrive St. Louis Leave 2:15 P.M. C.T.
12:18 P.M. C.T. Leave St. Louis Arrive 2:00 P.M. C.T..
Fred Harvey luncheon on plane
2:47 P.M. C.T. Leave Kansas City Arrive 2:47 P.M. C.T.
3:02 P.M. C.T. Arrive Kansas City Leave 3:02 P.M. C.T.
4:56 P.M. C.T. Leave Wichita Arrive 4:56 P.M. C.T.
5:11 P.M. C.T. Arrive Wichita Leave 5:11 P.M. C.T.
6:24 P.M. C.T. Leave Waynoka Arrive 6:24 P.M. C.T.
TAT auto car service to Harvey House for dinner (Terminal field stop 4 1/2 miles east of Waynoka, Oklahoma) TAT auto car service to Wynoka landing field
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
Set-out Pullman ready
"The Missionary"
  Breakfast in Harvey House
11:00 P.M. C.T. Leave Waynoka Arrive 8:30 A.M. C.T.
8:25 A.M. C.T. Arrive Portair, Clovis Leave 11:35 P.M. C.T.
Breakfast in Harvey House   Set-out Pullman ready
"The Scout"
Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc.
TAT auto car service to Portair, New Mexico (Terminal field 5 miles west of Clovis, New Mexico) TAT auto car service to Clovis, New Mexico
  Leave Portair, Clovis Arrive  
  Arrive Albuquerque Leave  
    Fred Harvey dinner at Albuquerque Airport
  Leave Albuquerque Arrive  
  Arrive Winslow Leave  
  Leave Winslow Arrive  
Fred Harvey luncheon on plane
  Arrive Kingman Leave  
  Leave Kingman Arrive  
    Los Angeles    
         

Los Angeles-Amarillo Airway "LA-A"

Los Angeles-Kingman Section (1)
Kingman-Winslow Section (2)
Winslow-Albuquerque Section (3)
Albuquerque-Amarillo Section   (4)

Amarillo-Kansas City Airway  "A-KC"

Amarillo-Anthony Section
Anthony-Kansas City Section

Kansas City-St. Louis Airway "KC-St.L"

St. Louis-Indianapolis Airway "St.L-I"

Indianapolis-Dayton Airway "I-D"

Dayton-Springfield on CAM 16, Louisville-Cleveland Airway, Louisville-Springfield Section "L-C"

Springfiled-Coumbus on CAM 16, Louisville-Cleveland Airway, Springfield-Cleveland Section "L-C"

Columbus-Philadelphia Airway

Columbus-Ebensburg Section
Ebensburg-Philadelphia Section

Los Angeles-Albuquerque Airway (LA-A)

Gallup-Albuequerque

Albuquerque-Witchita Airway

Waynoka-Wichita
Albuquerque-Clovis Section

Amarillo-St. Louis airway "A-St. L" "A-ST. L." "A-STL"

Links

Plane Tales-Finding History

Commemorative Paperweight for the First Rail-Air Service

Map of TAT Route

Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc.

History and Business:
Incorportated (Delaware) 1928.  Merged in June, 1929, with Maddux Air Lines Company, but the latter company will continue to operate as a seperate identity.  Company was formed by the Pennsylvainia Railroad and interest identified with Curtis Aeroplane & Motor Company; Wright Aeronautical Corporation; Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company, and a banking group headed by  Blair & Company, Inc.  Company conducts air rail passenger transportation between New York and Los Angeles.  Together with Maddux Air Lines Co., the company will have air routes extending over the United States and parts of Mexico.
Capitalization:
Authorized 1,000,000 shares of capital stock (no par); outstanding 525,000 shares, which were sold to underwriters at $10 per share.
Officers:
C.M. Keys, President; P.H. Henderson, Vice-President; John Rath, Vice-President, H. G. Hotchkiss, Secretary and Treasurer.
Resistrars:
Chatham and Phenix National Bank and Trust Co., New York; American Trust Co, San Francisco, California.
Transfer Agents:
Bankers Trust Co, New York; Anglo-London-Paris National Bank, San Francisco, California
Listed:
New York Curb Exchange and San Francisco Stock Exchange
Address:
60 Broadway, New York, N.Y.

Curtiss-Wright Corporation

History and Business:
Formed in June, 1929, as a holding company to consolidate aviation companies comprising the Keys-Curitis and Hoyte-Wright groups, as follows: Wright Aeronautical Corporation; Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Company, Inc.; Curtiss Airports Corporation; Curtiss Flying Service, Inc.; Custis Aeroplane Export Corporation; Curtiss-Caproni Corporation; Curtis-Robertson Airplane Manufacturing Company; Keystone Aircraft Corporation; New York Air Terminals, Inc.; New York & Suburban Air Lines; Moth Aircraft Corporation.
The new compamny, if its formation is ratified by the stockholders, will have a complete line of planes and motors, distributing agencies and dealer organizations, and will also own airports. The announced plan is to keep intact all of the existing organizations and their personnel.
None of the transportation units of the Keys-Hoyt group have been included in the newly formed compamy. These units are: National Air Transport, operating air mail service from New York to Chicago and Dallas; The Pitcairn Lines, operating from New York to Miami, via Washington and Atlanta; Transcontinental Air Transport, operating from New York to the Pacific Coast; Maddux Air Lines, operating passenger lines on the pacific Coast and Aviation Corporation of the Americas, operating in Central and South America.

Captialization:
Authorized 2,000,000 shares of class A stock (no par); and 10,000,000 shares of capital stock (no par).  Class A stock will be entitled to referential payments of $2 a share annyally and will be convertible share for share into common stock and allable by the company at $40 a share.


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