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The Capitol Limited is a temporarily discontinued daily Amtrak train between Washington, D.C., and Chicago, running 764 miles (1,230 km) via Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Service began in 1981. On November 10, 2024, Amtrak temporarily combined the Capitol Limited and Silver Star, producing a Chicago-Washington–Miami route, the Floridian.
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 trains were dropped and the consist of the Capitol Limited was considerably-reduced. B&O discontinued all long-distance train service to Baltimore's Camden Station.
The new train, called the Floridian, will use the entire route of the Capitol Limited between Chicago and Washington, D.C., and the route of the Silver Star between Washington, D.C. and Miami. The combined train will use single-level Amfleet and Viewliner cars from the Silver Star and carry the train numbers 40 and 41, which were previously ...
The Floridian (trains 40 & 41) will operate on a similar schedule as the two routes that are combined to make it. Capitol Limited (trains 29 & 30) between Chicago and Washington, D.C.
In November 2024 Amtrak truncated the Silver Star at Washington and merged it with the Capitol Limited, creating a single Chicago–Washington–Miami route: the Floridian. [28] This was the first direct train service between the Midwest and Florida since the 1979 discontinuance of the original Floridian, albeit following a longer route.
It was the all-coach supplemental train of the all-Pullman Capitol Limited. It operated from 1931 to 1964. The train's initial route was between Jersey City, New Jersey and Washington, D.C., but in 1941 the Columbian route was lengthened to Jersey City – Chicago, Illinois. It was the first air-conditioned train in the United States.
Amtrak's Capitol Limited began stopping in McKeesport in 1982. PATrain service was discontinued in April 1989, and replaced by an express bus service from McKeesport. The Capitol Limited ceased to stop in 1991, and in the months prior an average of one passenger boarded at McKeesport per journey.
The Floridian will combine the most of the Silver Star with the Capital Limited between Washington and Chicago. Amtrak to offer direct train service between the Triangle and the Midwest Skip to ...