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The New York Central Railroad (reporting mark NYC) was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The railroad primarily connected greater New York and Boston in the east with Chicago and St. Louis in the Midwest, along with the intermediate cities of Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Rochester and Syracuse.
Pages in category "Passenger trains of the New York Central Railroad" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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.
New York Central Railroad: Syracuse and Utica Direct Railroad: NYC: 1853 1853 New York Central Railroad: Terminal Railway of Buffalo: NYC: 1895 1914 New York Central Railroad: Ticonderoga Railroad: D&H: 1889 1957 Delaware and Hudson Railroad: Tioga Railroad: ERIE: 1876 1885 New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad: Tioga Central Railroad: TIOC ...
The Southwestern Limited was one of the New York Central's luxury passenger trains. This passenger train competed with the other major railroad in the northeast, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and its Blue Ribbon named passenger trains the St. Louisan, the Jeffersonian, the Penn Texas and the Spirit of St. Louis.
Mercury was the name used by the New York Central Railroad for a family of daytime streamliner passenger trains operating between midwestern cities. The Mercury train sets were designed by the noted industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss, and are considered a prime example of Streamline Moderne design.
New York Central and Hudson River Railroad No. 999, the "Queen of Speed," slows to 60 mph (97 km/h) as it leads the Empire State Express through Palatine, New York in 1905. The key to the Empire State's initial fame was a 37-foot (11 m)-long American-type 4-4-0 steam locomotive built in West Albany, New York especially to haul the train.
The D&H inaugurated the Laurentian in 1923 as a daytime service between New York City and Montreal, Quebec, via Albany and Lake Champlain. [1] On the D&H section, steam locomotives pulled the train from its inception until 1953, when it received diesel equipment. [2] [page needed] The New York Central Railroad handled the train between New York ...