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U.S., Passenger Trains from 1830 to Amtrak: An Incomplete List of Things Not Found Today on Passenger Trains

September 13, 2022 Administrator

Editor’s Note: This article last appeared on this platform on November 22, 2021. It has been updated and photos and…

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Posted in: Amtrak, Brightline, High Speed Rail, History, Intercity Passenger Train, Locomotives, Night Trains/Sleeper Trains, Passenger Amenities and Food Service, Passenger Rail Car Manufacturing, Passenger Train Operators, Private Passenger Train Developers, Railroad Industry, VIA Rail Canada Filed under: Acela, Amtrak, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, City of Los Angeles, dining car waiters, Dining Cars, Dome Cars, Dome Streamliner, Great Northern, High Speed Rail, History, Intercity, metroliners, Milwaukee Road, NEC, North Coast Limited, Northeast Corridor, Northern Pacific, Passenger Food and Amenities, Passenger Train Stations, Passenger Trains, Penn Central, Pennsylvania Railroad, Pullman Company, Pullman Porters, Rail Passenger, Railroad Industry, Santa Fe Railway, Seaboard Air Line Railroad, Silver Meteor, Skytop Lounge, Sun Lounge, The Canadian, The Super Chief, Transportation, Travel, VIA Rail Canada

U.S.: Stephen Gardner’s Amtrak Empire Builder in past better days competed spiritedly with the North Coast Limited, Mainstreeter, Olympian Hiawatha and Western Star

August 12, 2022 Administrator

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on this platform on March 15, 2021. It has been updated and photographs and…

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Posted in: Amtrak, Freight Railroads, History, Intercity Passenger Train, Passenger Amenities and Food Service, Passenger Train Operators, Passenger Trains Filed under: Amtrak, Billings, Burlington, Chicago, Chicago Union Station, City of Portland, Dome Cars, Empire Builder, Great Domes, Great Northern, History, Intercity, James J Hill, Mainstreeter, Montana, North Coast Limited, Northern Pacific, Olympian Hiawatha, Oregon, Passenger Food and Amenities, Passenger Train Stations, Passenger Trains, Portland, Pullman Sleeping Cars, Pullman Touralux, Rail Passenger, Seattle, Skytop Lounge, Spokane, Spokane Portland and Seattle, Streamliners, Superliners, The Western Star, Transportation, Travel, Union Pacific, Washington

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