![]() Not only that, but it would also likely provide the "reverse" service for Lynchburg and Charlottesville that is greatly desired.honestly, such a train could probably operate with a smaller operating loss than the Cardinal currently does between CIN-IND-CHI business and ROA-LYH-CVS-WAS-NYP business (and might even need an extra coach or two ROA-NYP if those intermediate markets keep growing).Īlso of interest.the Hilltopper had 66/67 in the schedule, and IIRC it went via Richmond at one point or another (with a connecting Ambus to NFK). ![]() However, assuming that the train starts in NYP instead of BOS, the extra hours would actually help the train by pushing the Cincinatti hours later in the morning. I've wondered about rerouting the Cardinal via LYH/ROA, actually, for the very reasons that you mentioned (plus getting it off of the BBRR, which has just been a problem and which IIRC is one of the stumbling blocks to daily service). It was cut back to Niagara Falls in 1979 when both New York state and Michigan withdrew support for it. Also notice that there was no Niagara Falls service either, and the connecting service to Toronto ran on a close approximation of the route that would need to be brought back if the Whirlpool Bridge actually gets abandoned by CN without Amtrak/VIA/New York/Ontario taking it over. See the 1975 New York - Buffalo - Detroit Timetable (see Empire State Express in that timetable). It left New York Grand Central at 8:30am arriving Detroit at 10:05pm and left Detroit at 7:45am arriving back at NYG at 9:50pm. ![]() It was a day train so it carried no sleepers. It was originally introduce sometime around late 1974 as an extension of the Empire State Express to Detroit funded by Michigan and New York states, and then the name was changed around 1976. The Niagara Rainbow was for a period a train that ran from New York to Detroit running through Canada between Buffalo and Detroit. ![]() Best guess date 1975Īmtrak 907 sits at Wilmington with most of its external parts removed.Click to expand.One runs a train to Catlettsburg just because one can force it to be run by threatening budget approval for the rest of the system if it is not run. 6/1975Īmtrak GG1 907 leads a pre-amfleet train southbound on number 3 track on the Gunpowder River bridge. The construction will allow better superelevation of track and thus ease (but not eliminate) a speed-restricting reverse curve." Amtrak engine #907 was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad in Juniata during June of 1940 and originally numbered "4906."Īmtrak GG1 907 and train are southbound on number 4 track at Stemmers Run, MD before the indroduction of amfleet cars. ![]() Photo Caption: "Wearing Amtrak digits and PC paint, GG1 907 takes a Philadelphia-bound Amtrak 'clocker' past new fill and catenary poles at Elizabeth, N.J. It was published originally in the October 1973 issue of "Trains" magazine, page 15. Other locos with this serial: PRR 4906(GG1) PC 907(GG1) AMTK 907(GG1) ![]()
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