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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.
St. Louis, Oak Hill and Carondelet Railway: MP: 1886 1910 Missouri Pacific Railway: St. Louis Railway and Dock Company: St. Louis and St. Joseph Railroad: ATSF: 1868 1874 St. Joseph and St. Louis Railroad: St. Louis, Salem and Arkansas Railway: SLSF: 1887 1897 St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad: St. Louis, Salem and Little Rock Railroad: SLSF ...
Opened in 2008 and operating 24 hours a day, it serves Amtrak trains and Greyhound and Burlington Trailways interstate buses. Missouri's largest rail transportation station, it is located one block east of St. Louis Union Station. Gateway Station cost $31.4 million [a] to build, [5] and after more than a year of delays it fully opened on ...
St. Louis and Cedar Rapids Railway: WAB: 1865 1873 St. Louis, Ottumwa and Cedar Rapids Railway: St. Louis, Des Moines and Northern Railway: MILW: 1881 1889 Des Moines and Northern Railway: St. Louis, Keokuk and Northwestern Railroad: CB&Q: 1887 1901 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad: St. Louis, Keokuk and North Western Railway: CB&Q: 1875 ...
I-44 enters the St. Louis region in Sullivan, Missouri, and runs eastward through Franklin and St. Louis counties, briefly merging with I-55 in the city of St. Louis, and terminating at I-70. The "beltway" serving Greater St. Louis is the combination of Interstate 270 and Interstate 255, the former a mostly western bypass of St. Louis
During this period, the population of East St. Louis nearly doubled each decade. Amidst this growth, the East St. Louis and Suburban grew by acquiring shorter interurban lines. The Illinois Traction System reached St. Louis via trackage rights on the East St. Louis and Suburban over the Eads Bridge until the completion of the McKinley Bridge.
The St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company (reporting mark SSW), known by its nickname of "The Cotton Belt Route" or simply "Cotton Belt", was a Class I railroad that operated between St. Louis, Missouri, and various points in the U.S. states of Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Texas from 1891 to 1980, when the system added the Rock Island's Golden State Route and operations in Kansas ...
On January 1, 1917, the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway (the Panhandle) which the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) had acquired in 1868, was merged into the Vandalia Railroad to form the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad. This gave the PRR a direct route from New York City to St. Louis.