Aboard the Southern Pacific's New Frontier Special, the mood varied from convivial nostalgia in the bar and press cars, as oldtimers recalled the whistle-stop campaigns of the past, to steadily rising spirits in the blue-carpeted observation car, where Jack Kennedy and his aides mulled over the speeches and counted noses at every stop. "This train is headed not only south," Kennedy shouted from the rear platform to a crowd in Marysville, Calif., "but it's headed toward Washington!"
As the three big diesels hauled the 15-car campaign train through the Cascade Mountains into...
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