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Until 1976 the Erie Lackawanna Railroad, and previously the Erie Railroad, [1] had operated a single daily commuter train between Cleveland and Youngstown, Ohio. [2] The railroad had attempted to discontinue the train in 1970, along with its other passenger operations other than New Jersey commuter services, but the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio denied it permission. [2]
The Big Four Depot behind the Ohio State Limited making a stop in 1965. In 1924, an average of 3,000 freight cars and 40 passenger and express trains passed through the depot each day. [2] By 1926, the station was accommodating 26 passenger trains a day. Two years later, the depot was being used by 123,000 passengers. [3]
Youngstown station is a former passenger railroad station in Youngstown, Ohio. The station is on the ex Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and was a B&O passenger station for most of the twentieth century. The station was built in 1905 and operated as a passenger station until 1971, when the B&O yielded passenger train service to Amtrak. [2]
New York Central moved their Toledo and Ohio Central services back to Union Station in 1930. [3] In April 1931, the train shed was replaced with an enclosed concourse. In 1956, Columbus was down to 42 daily passenger trains, the lowest number since 1875. Daily passenger trains fell to 21 in 1962, and just 10 in 1970.
Amtrak's Capitol Limited joined the station when the Amtrak incarnation of the train was launched in 1981. Amtrak service with the Broadway Limited and the Capitol Limited at the station ended in 1990 as those trains were rerouted that fall to the north: the Broadway Limited to Akron and the Capitol Limited to Alliance, Ohio. [8] [9]
The train consisted of 3 General Electric AC44C6M locomotives (Nos. 4178 and 4224 on the head-end and No. 4412 in the middle acting as distributed power), 141 loaded cars and 9 empty cars. [15] Other reports note one more car, for a total of 151 cars, weighing 18,000 tons. [16]
The Valley Railway was a shortline railroad which operated between the city of Cleveland and small town of Zoarville in the state of Ohio in the United States. The railroad was founded in 1871, but the first segment of track did not open until 1880 and the line was not completed until 1884.
On the south side of the street was the accompanying freight depot. B&O trains traveling between Chicago's Grand Central Station and Pittsburgh's P&LE Station could stop at Kent, but the stop was a flag stop only available on certain trains. [19] Passenger service to this station ended April 30, 1971.