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The train was renamed Federal Express in 1894. In the early 1910s the waterborne segment was dropped; instead, the Boston train ran into Grand Central Terminal, while the Washington train terminated at Penn Station, which had opened in 1910. Passengers used ground transport to move between the two stations, which were a little over a mile apart.
In 2000, Amtrak introduced the Acela service along the Northeast Corridor between Boston and Washington, D.C., via New York City and Philadelphia.The service uses a dedicated Acela Express trainset that was built by a consortium of Alstom and Bombardier between 1998 and 2001.
Map of the areas and stations served by Acela in 2006. The Acela (/ ə ˈ s ɛ l ə / ə-SEL-ə; originally the Acela Express until September 2019) is Amtrak's flagship passenger train service along the Northeast Corridor (NEC) in the Northeastern United States between Washington, D.C. and Boston via 13 intermediate stops, including Baltimore, New York City and Philadelphia.
The Federal Express (after April 1939, officially known as just the Federal) was an overnight named passenger train run by the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad between Washington Union Station in Washington, D.C., and South Station in Boston, from 1912 to 1971.
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became train #142; Akron Express 1918 — 1919 ... Boston & Washington Night Express 1877 — 1884 Boston, MA — New York, NY — Washington, DC renamed Fast Mail;
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Washington and New York Express: Pennsylvania: New York, New York–Washington, DC (with through cars to other points at different times) [1930] 1885–1905; 1909–1936; 1940–1946 Washington and Philadelphia Express: Pennsylvania: Washington, DC–Philadelphia, Pennsylvania–Buffalo, New York [1930] 1910–1951 Washington Day Express ...