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The G Brooklyn-Queens Crosstown [4] is an 11.4-mile-long (18.3 km) [5] rapid transit service in the B Division of the New York City Subway. Its route emblem, or "bullet", is colored light green since it uses the IND Crosstown Line .
Cleveland Lakefront Station is an Amtrak train station at North Coast Harbor in Cleveland, Ohio. The current station was built in 1977 to provide service to the Lake Shore Limited route (New York/Boston-Chicago), which was reinstated by Amtrak via Cleveland and Toledo in 1975. [3] It replaced service to Cleveland Union Terminal.
The Lakeshore East line is the second oldest of GO's services, opening as part of the then-unified Lakeshore line on GO's first day of operations, 23 May 1967. [2] It is ten minutes younger than its twin; although the first train from Pickering bound for Toronto left at 6:00 am that day, a 5:50 am departure from Oakville on Lakeshore West beat it into the record books.
A Lake Shore Limited train backs into Union Station in Chicago, with the Willis Tower visible in the background. The Lake Shore Limited consists of a New York section (train number 48 eastbound, 49 westbound) and a Boston section (448 eastbound, 449 westbound), which run combined between Chicago and Albany. The distance between Chicago and New ...
New York City – Albany April 7, 1991 April 1, 1995 Lake Shore: New York City – Chicago May 10, 1971 () January 6, 1972 () Unnamed until November 14, 1971. [14] Lake Shore Limited † New York City/Boston – Chicago October 31, 1975 () present [15] Maple Leaf † New York City – Toronto: April 26, 1981 present
Westward service resumed briefly after May with the introduction of the Chicago–New York City Lake Shore, but this train was canceled on January 6, 1972. The Empire Service name was restored on June 11, 1972, and individual names were added to the trains along the corridor on May 19, 1974.
This line, now divided as the Lakeshore East and Lakeshore West lines is the keystone corridor of GO Transit, and continued to be its only rail line for its first seven years of operation. [5] GO's other five lines were opened between 1974 and 1982, significantly expanding the rail network from 86 to 332 kilometres long, and from 16 to 43 stations.
The Lakeshore West line is the oldest of GO's services, opening as part of the then-unified Lakeshore line on GO Transit's first day of operations on May 23, 1967. [4] The first train, numbered 946 left at 5:50 am from Oakville bound for Toronto, ten minutes before service began out of Pickering. [5]