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The Wolverine was an international night train that twice crossed the Canada–United States border, going from New York City to Chicago.This New York Central Railroad train went northwest of Buffalo, New York, into Canada, traveled over Michigan Central Railroad tracks, through Windsor, Ontario, reentering the United States, through Detroit's Michigan Central Station, and on to Chicago.
The Wolverine is a higher-speed passenger train service operated by Amtrak as part of its Michigan Services. The 304-mile (489 km) [3] line provides three daily round-trips between Chicago and Pontiac, Michigan, via Ann Arbor and Detroit. It carries a heritage train name descended from the New York Central Railroad (Michigan Central).
Despite the presence of the safety system on the Michigan Line, a derailment occurred just east of Niles, Michigan, on October 21, 2012, after a Wolverine train exited the main line and entered a freight yard due to a misaligned switch. The train had a green signal and was traveling at about 60 mph (97 km/h) when it hit the switch.
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Michigan City station was a train station in Michigan City, Indiana served by Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system.It was served by two eastbound and one westbound Wolverine train at the time of closure; other Wolverine and Blue Water trains did not stop.
After only Chicago Union Station, Ann Arbor is the busiest station on the Wolverine, [12] as well as the busiest of the 22 Amtrak stations in Michigan. [13] In 2019, Amtrak handled 156,674 train arrivals and departures at the station. All of these were coach and business class tickets [4] (the Wolverine does not have a first class or sleeper ...
Between 1920 and 1922, the legendary Wolverine passenger train operated in two sections, five days per week along CSR's mainline. [8] Then, in the summer of 1923, the eastbound Wolverine began running from Detroit to Buffalo without any scheduled stops in Canada, making the trip in 4 hours and 50 minutes, an unprecedented achievement. [9]
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