sentences:  The corps took its name from the Chicago-to-Miami passenger train "The South Wind" that passed through Montgomery on tracks beside what became the corps' practice field.In 1981, Southwind toured to contests in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, and North Carolina before traveling to Philadelphia for the VFW National Drum and Bugle Contest (placing 5th of 8 corps) and then on the DCI World Championships in Montreal, where they finished 39th of 49 corps in Open Class Prelims.The corps undertook an even more extensive tour under director Dave Bryan in 1982, travelling west to Louisiana and Texas, north to Pennsylvania, back into the South, where they placed 5th of 10 corps in the Drum Corps South circuit championships, returned north to Ohio, New York, and made another trip to the DCI World Championships in Montreal, where they were 36th of 49 corps in Open Class Prelims.