Capitol Limited (B&o Train) (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Capitol Limited was an American passenger train run by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, originally between New York City and Grand Central Station in Chicago, Illinois via Union Station, Washington, D. C. and Pittsburgh. For almost 48 years, it was the B&O's flagship passenger train, noted for personalized service and innovation. At the time of its discontinuation on May 1, 1971, when Amtrak took over most rail passenger service in the U.S., the Capitol Limited operated between Washington and Chicago. The Capitol Limited was inaugurated on May 12, 1923, as an all-Pullman sleeping car train running from Pennsylvania Station in New York City to Chicago, via Washington, D. C. Once west of the Hudson River in New Jersey the train used the Jersey Central and Reading Railroad as far as Philadelphia, where it reached B&O's own rails to Chicago.