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The merged train was known as the George Washington eastbound and the James Whitcomb Riley westbound. At the same time the route was extended from Washington to Boston, Massachusetts, and was assigned train numbers 50 eastbound and 51 westbound. On March 6, 1972, the train was rerouted from Chicago's Central Station into Union Station. On April ...
That same year, the James Whitcomb Riley, a streamlined all-coach passenger train, made its inaugural run over the line, connecting Chicago to Cincinnati, on a 5-and-a-half hour schedule. The train proved popular enough to be included in the initial Amtrak system in 1971. However, the Penn Central merger in 1968, and subsequent bankruptcy in ...
The station was built in 1901 by the Cincinnati, Richmond and Muncie Railroad (CR&M), which was acquired by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) in 1910. Into the early 1930s, an unnamed C&O night train from Chicago to Cincinnati stopped at the station. [2] However, by 1938, that service was shortened to a day train from Hammond to
Cincinnati was a major center of railroad traffic in the late 19th and early 20th century. However, Cincinnati's intercity passenger traffic was split among five stations which were cramped and prone to flooding from the Ohio River. [16] After the Great Flood of 1884, railroad presidents began seeking one major terminal located far from the ...
The train began on Pennsylvania Railroad territory from Chicago to Cincinnati as train 200 southbound (and train 201 northbound); the Louisville and Nashville Railroad operated the Southland as train 33 (and train 32 northbound) from Cincinnati to eastern Kentucky, eastern Tennessee and then to Atlanta. [3]
This listing includes current and discontinued routes operated by Amtrak since May 1, 1971. Some intercity trains were also operated after 1971 by the Alaska Railroad, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad, Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, Georgia Railroad, Reading Company, and Southern Railway.
The two trains began exchanging through Washington—Chicago and Newport News—Chicago coaches at Cincinnati on July 12, and a through sleeping car began September 8. [13] On November 14, the Riley and George Washington merged into a single long-distance Chicago-Washington train, with the eastbound train (train 50) known as the George ...
The service was numbered Train 57 southbound and Train 58 northbound. The numbers 57/58 operated on the Detroit - Cincinnati line as early as 1921. [ 1 ] The service was provided in conjunction with the Pere Marquette Railroad (and later, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ) from Detroit to Toledo and with the Louisville and Nashville from ...