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#1 KevinKorell

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Posted 02 December 2017 - 07:15 PM

Albany, NY Times-Union, 12/1/17:
 

At 50, Empire Service has covered a lot of ground


Fifty years ago this weekend, the famous "name" trains of the New York Central — the 20th Century Limited, the Wolverine, the Empire State Express and others — made their last runs.

 
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Posted 03 December 2017 - 04:43 PM

Classic Trains 'Mileposts'  blog 11/28/17:
 

Fifty years later, the Century refuses to die

 

 

I don’t know what I was doing on the afternoon of December 3, 1967, but I know where I should have been: on the platform of Union Station in South Bend, Ind., awaiting the passage of the last westbound edition of New York Central’s le  gendary 20th Century Limited.  That’s right, it’s been 50 years since NYC pulled the plug on what was generally considered the “world’s most famous train.” The final runs of trains 25 and 26 were unceremonious,  .  .  .  But “unceremonious” doesn’t begin to do justice to the westbound edition: it arrived in Chicago’s La Salle Street Station hours late due to a freight derailment the night before in eastern Ohio.  .  .  .

 

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