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Train Name Railroad Train Endpoints in a typical [year] Operated Taconic: New Haven: New York, New York–Pittsfield, Massachusetts [1955] 1954–1958 Tamiami: Pennsylvania, Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, Florida East Coast Railway: New York, New York–Miami, Florida–Tampa, Florida [1935] 1930–1940
Congress added railroad worker safety laws throughout the 20th century. [114]: 16–25 Significant among this legislation is the Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1970, which gave the FRA broad responsibilities over all aspects of rail safety, and expanded the agency's authority to cover all railroads, both interstate and intrastate. [119]
Train Name Railroad Train Endpoints in a typical [year] Operated Cabana: New Haven: New York, New York - Boston, Massachusetts [1951] 1932–1940; 1950–1954; 1962 California and Mexico Express: Santa Fe: Kansas City, Missouri - Los Angeles, California [1904] 1886-1907 California Express: Texas and Pacific
The New York & Pennsylvania Railroad (NYP) was a single track, shortline railroad running on a route described as east—west in the company's timetables, [1]: between 6 and 7 but closer to an arc: almost due south along Bennett's Creek from Canisteo through the hamlets of Greenwood, Rexville, and Whitesville, New York, southwest through Genesee, Pennsylvania to Oswayo, Pennsylvania, then ...
The Dixie Flyer was a premier named American passenger train that operated from 1892 to 1965 via the "Dixie Route" from Chicago and St. Louis via Evansville, Nashville, and Atlanta to Florida. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] However, the train continued until 1969 as an Atlanta to Florida operation, run solely by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and its ...
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] Many passenger ...
This depot lasted until 1944, until it was replaced by a passenger shelter. [113] However, the service would stop after a storm ruined the railroad tracks. [115] Navesink Beach 1882 [113] November 29, 1944 [115] No station depot was ever built at Navesink Beach, just a passenger shelter, replaced in 1912. [113] Normandy 1884 [116] November 29 ...
Old Point Express 1891 — 1926 Philadelphia, PA — Cape Charles, VA renamed Del-Mar-Va Express; Orange Blossom Special 1925 — 1953 New York, NY — West Palm Beach, FL via SAL; Orange Blossom Special (West Coast) 1927 — 1942 New York, NY — St. Petersburg, FL; Overnight Express 1913 Philadelphia, PA — Pittsburgh, PA