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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.
This line is a projected "high speed" line; a portion of the line was converted to 110 MPH operation in early 2012 with further upgrades planned. Amtrak operates three Chicago-Detroit-Pontiac trains each way per day, under the old banner Wolverine. The Port Huron train (the Blue Water) also uses this line as far east as Battle Creek, Michigan.
The Wolverine is a higher-speed passenger train service operated by Amtrak as part of its Michigan Services. The 304-mile (489 km) [3] line provides three daily round-trips between Chicago and Pontiac, Michigan, via Ann Arbor and Detroit. It carries a heritage train name descended from the New York Central Railroad (Michigan Central).
The train's westbound trip from Montreal and Toronto to Detroit and Chicago carried the number 19. [1] [2] By the 1930s, the New York Central Railroad had absorbed the Michigan Central Railroad. In 1934 the Michigan Central changed the eastbound train number to 58; the westbound Canadian would be 39. [3]
The Detroit-Chicago corridor has been designated by the Federal Railroad Administration as a high-speed rail corridor. [11] A 97-mile (156 km) stretch along the route of Blue Water and Wolverine from Porter, Indiana to Kalamazoo, Michigan is the longest segment of track owned by Amtrak outside of the Northeast Corridor . [ 11 ]
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Over 1,000 people gathered and waited hours to see the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train pass by Carbon Athletic Club in Detroit on Monday.
The locomotives operate on third rail electric power in Penn Station and the Empire Connection tunnel and on diesel power for the rest of the route. [18] Between Albany–Rensselaer and Toronto, traditional diesel-only GE Genesis P42DC locomotives are used, although the P32AC-DM locomotive may occasionally stay on the train all the way to Toronto.