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The Shenandoah began operating on October 31, 1976. [1] The name came from the Shenandoah, a Washington–Akron train operated by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad until Amtrak took over the nation's passenger trains in 1971. [2]: 29 The former platform of the Parkersburg station once served by the Shenandoah
The Shenandoah was an American named passenger train of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O), one of four daily B&O trains operating between Jersey City, New Jersey and Grand Central Station in Chicago, Illinois, via Washington, D.C., and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Shenandoah (Amtrak train), an American passenger train between Washington, DC, and Cincinnati, Ohio; Arts and media
The Washington and Old Dominion Railroad was originally incorporated as the Alexandria and Harper's Ferry (A&HF) Railroad in 1847. The goal of the A&HF was to connect to the Winchester and Potomac River Railroad in Harper's Ferry and thus redirect trade from the Shenandoah that had started going to Baltimore via the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad.
The train was named for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Capitol Limited, which ended in 1971 upon the formation of Amtrak. It carried the Amtrak train numbers 29 and 30, which were previously assigned to the discontinued National Limited. During fiscal year 2023, the Capitol Limited carried 167,713 passengers, down 24.7% from FY2022. [3]
The Metropolitan Special was a passenger train of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) that operated from 1971. For most of its career, it ran between St. Louis, Missouri, and Jersey City, New Jersey.
Shenandoah Valley Railroad was a line completed on June 19, 1882, extending up the Shenandoah Valley from Hagerstown, Maryland through the West Virginia panhandle into Virginia to reach Roanoke, Virginia and to connect with the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W).
Shenandoah Valley Railroad: N&W: 1867 1890 Shenandoah Valley Railway: Shenandoah Valley Railway: N&W: 1890 1890 Norfolk and Western Railroad: South Atlantic and Ohio Railroad: SOU: 1882 1898 Virginia and Southwestern Railway: South and Western Railroad: ACL/ L&N: 1905 1908 Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway: South and Western Railway: ACL ...