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Congress added railroad worker safety laws throughout the 20th century. [114]: 16–25 Significant among this legislation is the Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1970, which gave the FRA broad responsibilities over all aspects of rail safety, and expanded the agency's authority to cover all railroads, both interstate and intrastate. [119]
Eventually the Official Guide would list all of the passenger train schedules of railroads in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Central America. At the peak of rail passenger service in the 1920s, "The Guide", as it was commonly known in the industry, exceeded 1,500 pages and was widely used by railroad personnel, travel agents, and ...
Train Name Railroad Train Endpoints in a typical [year] Operated Taconic: New Haven: New York, New York–Pittsfield, Massachusetts [1955] 1954–1958 Tamiami: Pennsylvania, Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, Florida East Coast Railway: New York, New York–Miami, Florida–Tampa, Florida [1935] 1930–1940
Train Name Railroad Train Endpoints in a typical [year] Operated Cabana: New Haven: New York, New York - Boston, Massachusetts [1951] 1932–1940; 1950–1954; 1962 California and Mexico Express: Santa Fe: Kansas City, Missouri - Los Angeles, California [1904] 1886-1907 California Express: Texas and Pacific
Route map of the railroad, circa 1950s (bold lines are T&P; thin lines denote connecting service for Eagle passenger trains) From 1873 to 1881 the Texas and Pacific built a total of 972 miles (1,560 km) of track; as a result it was entitled to land grants totalling 12,441,600 acres (50,349 km 2 ).
The loss in 1967 of mail and express contracts, which by then accounted for almost 70 percent of passenger train revenue for the B&O, severely affected the B&O's passenger service. The Post Office Department's cancellation of its mail contract for the Capitol Limited and other trains, on October 28, 1967, was the death knell. [ 5 ]
The Pennsylvania Railroad operated dozens of named passenger trains, and in fact, ... Old Point Express 1891 — 1926 Philadelphia, PA — Cape Charles, VA
Buffalo Train: Lehigh Valley Railroad, Grand Trunk Western Railroad: New York City–Chicago [1907] 1902–1914 Buffalonian: West Shore Railroad: New York City–Buffalo, New York (with sleeping cars to Chicago, St. Louis, and Boston) [1915] 1910–1925 Buffalonian: New York Central: New York City–Buffalo, New York [1924] 1915–1932 Buffalonian