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Mercury was the name used by the New York Central Railroad for a family of daytime streamliner passenger trains operating between midwestern cities. The Mercury train sets were designed by the noted industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss, and are considered a prime example of Streamline Moderne design.
The route later became part of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, owned by the New York Central Railroad. [1] In 1914, the New York Central and Hudson River were merged with the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway to create the New York Central Railroad, which ran the New York-Chicago route as one company. [1]
The Lake Shore Limited's immediate predecessor was the Exposition Flyer (not to be confused with a train of the same name operated between Chicago & Oakland, California, between 1939 and 1949), which the New York Central operated between New York and Chicago during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago.
The James Whitcomb Riley was a daytime all-coach train which operated between Chicago and Cincinnati (via Indianapolis). The George Washington, the C&O's flagship train, was a long-distance sleeper that ran between Cincinnati and—via a split in Charlottesville, Virginia —Washington, D.C. and Newport News, Virginia .
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.
The Broadway Limited was a passenger train operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) between New York City and Chicago. It operated from 1912 to 1995. It operated from 1912 to 1995. It was the Pennsylvania's premier train, competing directly with the New York Central Railroad 's 20th Century Limited .
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LaSalle Street Station is a commuter rail terminal at 414 South LaSalle Street in downtown Chicago.First used as a rail terminal in 1852, it was a major intercity rail terminal for the New York Central Railroad until 1968, and for the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad until 1978, but now serves only Metra's Rock Island District.