No need to add “en route”; the elegant script says it all. Perhaps because New York City was larger than Philadelphia (the Pennsy’s headquarters), trains like the 20th Century Limited had a little more prestige than the You can place … Continue reading
The Manhattan Limited was one of the longest-lived train on the Pennsylvania Railroad, having started in 1903 (nine years before the fabled Broadway Limited) as a Chicago-to-New York train paired with the Chicago Limited going in the other direction. In … Continue reading
The success of the Silver Meteor and Champion inspired several railroads to join with the Altantic Coast Line and Florida East Coast in providing coach streamliner service between Chicago and Miami in December, 1940. Such service was complicated by the … Continue reading
The Pennsylvania considered itself the “standard railroad of the world,” so it didn’t stoop to having the same streamliners as other railroads; instead, it had “Pennsyliners.” At least, that what this 1954 ticket envelope says. Extensive cheapest cialis uk research … Continue reading
On June 24, 1956, the Pennsylvania Railroad inaugurated the Keystone, a twice-daily Washington-New York train that used a new design of coaches built by Budd. The floors at the ends of the cars were of normal height so that doorways … Continue reading
Only a few railroads took the opportunity to advertise around Christmas. Given limited advertising budgets, most aimed for the summer tourist season instead. But the New York Central, Pennsylvania, Pullman, and Union Pacific all did some creative Christmas-themed ads, and … Continue reading
Just one month after re-equipping the Trail Blazer, the Pennsylvania Railroad introduced new equipment to the Jeffersonian, which connected New York with St. Louis, in February 1947. Click to download a 1.0-MB JPG of this advertisement from the March 15, … Continue reading
In the 1930s and 1940s, the 20th Century Limited and Broadway Limited were distinctive for only picking up and dropping off passengers in New York and Chicago (including one suburban station in each city). Passengers with intermediate origins or destinations … Continue reading
The 20th Century Limited may have been “the most famous train in the world,” but Pennsylvania’s Broadway Limited was physically equal to it in every possible way. So it is no surprise that the Pennsylvania reequipped its flagship train in … Continue reading
Out of the 120,000 or so steam locomotives built and used in the United States, only about 220 were streamlined–or, as the Chicago & North Western called it, steamlined–for passenger service. Railroads went to the trouble to streamline steam locomotives … Continue reading
