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The Shenandoah began operating on October 31, 1976. [1] The name came from the Shenandoah, a Washington–Akron train operated by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad until Amtrak took over the nation's passenger trains in 1971. [2]: 29 The former platform of the Parkersburg station once served by the Shenandoah
The Shenandoah was an American named passenger train of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O), one of four daily B&O trains operating between Jersey City, New Jersey and Grand Central Station in Chicago, Illinois, via Washington, D.C., and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from the 1930s to the 1950s.
The loss in 1967 of mail and express contracts, which by then accounted for almost 70 percent of passenger train revenue for the B&O, severely affected the B&O's passenger service. The Post Office Department's cancellation of its mail contract for the Capitol Limited and other trains, on October 28, 1967, was the death knell. [ 5 ]
When Amtrak was established in 1971, B&O Passenger service was replaced by the Potomac Special, which itself was replaced by the Blue Ridge in 1973. [10] From 1976 to 1981 it also served another Amtrak train called the Shenandoah. [11]
Hopes for the return of passenger rail service between Savannah and Atlanta got a boost recently when the Federal Rail Administration awarded the Georgia Department of Transportation $1.5 million ...
The Shenandoah, predecessor to the Capitol Limited, in 1978 The Capitol Limited and a MARC commuter train collided at Silver Spring, Maryland in 1996. On October 1, 1981, Amtrak stopped running the Shenandoah, which connected Washington, D.C., and Cincinnati, Ohio, and began running the Capitol Limited.
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The Metropolitan Special was a passenger train of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) that operated from 1971. For most of its career, it ran between St. Louis, Missouri , and Jersey City, New Jersey .