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The first New York-Chicago route was provided on January 24, 1853 with the completion of the Toledo, Norwalk and Cleveland Railroad to Grafton, Ohio on the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad. The route later became part of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, owned by the New York Central Railroad. [1]
The Cardinal is a long-distance passenger train operated by Amtrak between New York Penn Station and Chicago Union Station via Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Charlottesville, Charleston, Huntington, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis.
The 20th Century Limited was an express passenger train on the New York Central Railroad (NYC) from 1902 to 1967. The train traveled between Grand Central Terminal in New York City and LaSalle Street Station in Chicago, Illinois, along the railroad's "Water Level Route".
The Wolverine was an international night train that twice crossed the Canada–United States border, going from New York City to Chicago.This New York Central Railroad train went northwest of Buffalo, New York, into Canada, traveled over Michigan Central Railroad tracks, through Windsor, Ontario, reentering the United States, through Detroit's Michigan Central Station, and on to Chicago.
Chicago and New York Express: Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, Wabash Railroad: New York, New York - Chicago, Illinois [1930] 1900-1901; 1919-1932 Chicago and New York Special: New York Central and its affiliates New York, New York - Chicago, Illinois [1925] 1910-1928 Chicago and San Francisco Express: Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
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 was the Pennsylvania's premier train, competing directly with the New York Central Railroad's 20th Century Limited.
The train's first cars were rebuilt from surplus suburban commuter coaches like those that Dreyfuss saw unused. [14] 1936 Railway Age article about the New York Central train, The Mercury. The article contains technical descriptions, descriptions of the train's interior and exterior, and a floor plan for all of its 7 cars.
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.