WRONG SIDE OF THE TRACKS

David Freeman certainly understands the spirit of Hollywood and its history, but he muffed a historical detail in “The Best Revenge” (Aug. 23) when he wrote that “an army of novelists, journalists and playwrights left New York on the Super Chief. . . .”

They couldn’t have done. The Super Chief and its lesser sibling, the Chief, were run from Chicago to Los Angeles by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe before Amtrak took over. As Frederick Wakeman notes in “The Hucksters,” the preferred travel was by the New York Central’s 20th Century Limited overnight from Grand Central to Chicago’s LaSalle Street Station, then by the Super Chief for the approximately 42-hour run to Los Angeles.

JAMES E. BRODHEAD, SHERMAN OAKS