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The Spirit of Washington dinner train was a dinner train that operated for 15 years from Renton, Washington, with trips heading to Woodinville and back, and then for three months out of Tacoma, with trips heading from Tacoma to Lake Kapowsin near Mount Rainier. On October 29, 2007, the operators of the dinner train announced they would be ...
New York, NY — St. Louis, MO westbound train renamed The Juniata; The St. Louisan 1930 — 1971 ... New York, NY — Washington, DC; The Spirit of St. Louis 1927 ...
It was the successor of the famed Spirit of St. Louis, which was extended to Kansas City after Amtrak's formation and renamed later in 1971. When the National Limited was canceled in 1979, the only train serving the St. Louis–Kansas City corridor was the Chicago–Kansas City Ann Rutledge.
The Spirit of St. Louis was a named passenger train on the Pennsylvania Railroad and its successors Penn Central and Amtrak between New York and St. Louis, Missouri.The Pennsylvania introduced the Spirit of St. Louis on June 15, 1927, replacing the New Yorker (eastbound) and St. Louisian (westbound); that September, its running time was 24 hours and 50 minutes each way.
In 1970, the Department of Transportation, in its designation of endpoints for the Amtrak system, ordered a train to run between New York, Washington, and St. Louis. [1]: 9 The route had been served by the Spirit of St. Louis, originally run by the Pennsylvania Railroad and later inherited by Penn Central.
The National Limited name was subsequently revived by Amtrak for a train from New York to Kansas City, Missouri, via Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Dayton, Indianapolis, and St. Louis. This Amtrak train did not use the B&O route, instead being the successor of the old Pennsylvania Railroad mainstay, Spirit of St. Louis: the principal rival ...
The train continued west and left Buffalo at 3:50 AM. At Cleveland, the schedule shows the train leaving NYC track and joining the Big Four route at 8:45 AM. Continuing westward into the central time zone, the train left Indianapolis at 12:03 PM and arrived in St Louis at 4:58 PM, about 22 hours after leaving New York.
St. Louis and Kansas City Express: Missouri Pacific: St. Louis, Missouri–Denver, Colorado [1905] 1900–1910 St. Louis and New Orleans Limited: Illinois Central: St. Louis, Missouri–New Orleans, Louisiana [1905] 1897–1910 St. Louis Express: Illinois Central: St. Louis, Missouri–New Orleans, Louisiana [1905] 1900–1910 St. Louis Express ...