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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]
Kansas City – New York City July 12, 1971 October 1, 1979 Renamed from Spirit of St. Louis: Pennsylvanian † Pittsburgh – Philadelphia: April 27, 1980 October 29, 1983 Pittsburgh – New York City October 30, 1983 November 6, 1998 Chicago – New York City November 7, 1998 January 26, 2003 Pittsburgh – New York City January 27, 2003
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. [1]: 30
The NYC's Cleveland Limited from New York City to Buffalo likewise carried coaches and sleepers for a counterpart northwest-bound train (NYC #371) to Toronto. [4] In 1962 the Ohio State Limited was one of several NYC trains to receive the new slumbercoach economy sleeping cars in a failed attempt to revive flagging business.
The train, numbered 421 southwest-bound and 422 northeast-bound on the timetable, [4] was an attempt by the New York Central to modernize intrastate rail travel in Ohio and lure people out of their cars. The train made its last run on August 17, 1957, after less than 15 months of operations. [2] As a result, the train's name (Ohio-Xplorer or ...
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A 1985 advertisement for the Buckeye Route connecting Ohio's cities by rail. Amtrak offers three passenger train routes through Ohio, serving the major cities of Toledo, Cleveland, and Cincinnati. [1] The major cities of Columbus, Akron and Dayton do not have Amtrak service. Columbus is the second largest metropolitan area in the U.S. without ...
The Royal Blue was the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O)'s flagship passenger train between New York City and Washington, D.C., in the United States, beginning in 1890. The Baltimore-based B&O also used the name between 1890 and 1917 for its improved passenger service between New York and Washington, collectively dubbed the Royal Blue Line.