The City of Miami was a seven-car coach streamliner inaugurated by Illinois Central Railroad on December 18, 1940.

The City of Miami was powered by a single EMD E6A 2,000-horsepower (1,500 kW) diesel passenger cab unit.

Immaculately maintained equipment and perfectly matched consists in IC's familiar "Autumn Sunset" chocolate, orange, and yellow were traditional hallmarks of the ever popular Florida streamliner.

The Florida East Coast Railroad operated the train from Jacksonville to Miami until the FEC strike of 1963.

By 1955 the West Coast Champion[2] began hauling thru-cars for the City of Miami and South Wind[3] streamliners to and from Chicago on its Jacksonville-Tampa/Sarasota leg via Orlando and its Jacksonville-St. Petersburg section via Gainesville and Ocala.

The only engine change to occur on this route was at Jacksonville where the IC E6A 4000 was exchanged for the FEC's EMC E3 1001 to Miami.

The original seven-car set included the following:[1]: 110 Beginning April 23, 1949 the City of Miami added sleeping cars to its consist.