Which Amtrak service served the southeast United States and owned a previous Class I railroad system built in 1960?
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Birmingham station (Alabama) Birmingham is a train station in Birmingham, Alabama. It serves Amtrak's "Crescent", which provides daily service between New York City, Atlanta, and New Orleans. The current station is located on the site of another station originally built by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in 1960, although Amtrak did not use the building itself, which was torn down in the 2000s.
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Louisville and Nashville Railroad The Louisville and Nashville Railroad (reporting mark LN) , commonly called the L&N, was a Class I railroad that operated freight and passenger services in the southeast United States.
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Southern Pacific Transportation Company The Southern Pacific (reporting mark SP) (or Espee from the railroad initials- SP) was a name of multiple American Class I railroads that existed from 1865 to 1998 and all operated in the Western United States. The names that represented the Southern Pacific were Southern Pacific Railroad, Southern Pacific Company and Southern Pacific Transportation Company.
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Gulf Line Railway The Gulf Line Railway was a railroad in the U.S. state of Georgia, connecting Hawkinsville and Camilla. The line eventually became part of the Southern Railway, but is no longer in use.
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St. Louis Southwestern Railway The St. Louis Southwestern Railway (reporting mark SSW) , known by its nickname of "The Cotton Belt Route" or simply Cotton Belt, is a former US Class I railroad which operated between St. Louis, Missouri, and various points in the states of Arkansas and Texas from 1891 to 1992.
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Southern Pacific (narrow gauge) The Southern Pacific narrow gauge is the informal name given to a network of narrow gauge railroad lines operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) in western Nevada and eastern California. The SP narrow gauge system operated on the tracks of the former Carson and Colorado Railway which was purchased by SP in 1900. The line was originally built by the Virginia and Truckee Railroad. It was later purchased by the Southern Pacific, the line made enough profit to repay the purchase price within only one month. However, in later years the line was not as profitable, although it was enough to justify dieselizing the line, one of the few such cases in the United States.
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Newport News station Newport News station is a train station in Newport News, Virginia, serving Amtrak, the United States' national passenger system. It is a terminus of the "Northeast Regional" train and is a stop for the Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach.
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Texas Eagle (MP train) The Texas Eagle was a streamlined passenger train operated by the Missouri Pacific Railroad and the Texas and Pacific Railway between St. Louis, Missouri, and multiple destinations in the state of Texas. It operated from 1948 to 1971. The "Texas Eagle" was one of many trains discontinued when Amtrak began operations in 1971, although Amtrak would revive service over the Missouri Pacific with the "Inter-American" in 1974. This train was renamed the "Eagle" in 1981 and finally the "Texas Eagle" in 1988.
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Columbia and Sumter Railroad The Columbia and Sumter Railroad was a South Carolina railroad that operated immediately after the American Civil War.
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South Bend station South Bend is a train station in South Bend, Indiana. It is served by Amtrak's "Lake Shore Limited" between Chicago, Boston and New York City, and "Capitol Limited" between Chicago and Washington D.C.. The station was built by the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad in 1970; South Shore Line trains continued to use it until 1992.
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Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad The Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad was the final name of a system of railroads throughout Florida, becoming part of the Seaboard Air Line Railway in 1900. The system, including some of the first railroads in Florida, stretched from Jacksonville west through Tallahassee and south to Tampa.
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Charleston station (West Virginia) Charleston is an Amtrak station in Charleston, West Virginia, served by the "Cardinal". The station was originally owned by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. In September 2010, the station was purchased by General Corporation, a commercial real estate company based in Charleston. The station is located on the south bank of the Kanawha River, opposite downtown Charleston which lies on the north bank. Much of the station's outdoor space is covered by the South Side Bridge which allows both vehicular and pedestrian traffic to access the downtown areas. A fine dining establishment, Laury's Restaurant, occupies much of the station's interior.
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Gulf Coast Lines The Gulf Coast Lines was the name of a railroad system comprising three principal railroads, as well as some smaller ones, that stretched from New Orleans, Louisiana via Baton Rouge and Houston to Brownsville, Texas. Originally chartered as subsidiaries of the Frisco Railroad, the system became independent in 1916 and was purchased by the Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1925.
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Florida Southern Railway The Florida Southern Railway (later known as the Florida Southern Railroad) was a railroad that operated in Florida in the late 1800s. It was one of Florida's three notable narrow gauge railway when it was built along with the South Florida Railroad and the Orange Belt Railway. The Florida Southern was originally chartered to run from Lake City south through central Florida to Charlotte Harbor. However, with the influence of Henry B. Plant, it operated with two discontinuous segments that would make up the Plant System, which would later become part of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.
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S. Davies Warfield Solomon Davies Warfield (September 4, 1859 – October 24, 1927) was an American railroad executive and banker. He is primarily remembered for extending the Seaboard Air Line Railway into South Florida in the 1920s and for connecting the east and west coasts of Florida by rail. To this day, Amtrak trains travel from Central Florida to South Florida on the route built by Warfield.
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Madison station (Florida) Madison station is a former train station in Madison, Florida. It was served by Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system. Service has been suspended since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in 2005. Madison station's unique feature is that its waiting area consists of gazebos.
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Columbus Southern Railway The Columbus Southern Railway is a historic railroad that operated in the U.S. state of Georgia.
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Charleston and Western Carolina Railway The Charleston and Western Carolina Railway (C&WC) was formed in 1896 to operate the lines of the former Port Royal and Augusta Railway (PR&A) and the Port Royal and Western Carolina Railway (PR&WC). The PR&A and PR&WC had originally been part of the Central of Georgia Railroad but the South Carolina Legislature had forced the railroad to give up the subsidiary lines. The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL) took over the C&WC in 1897 but operated it as a subsidiary until 1959 when the ACL fully absorbed it. Much of the original system is still in use by ACL successor CSX Transportation.
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South Wind (train) The South Wind was a named passenger train equipped and operated jointly by the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (later Seaboard Coast Line), and the Florida East Coast Railway. The "South Wind" began operations in December 1940, providing streamliner service between Chicago, Illinois and Miami, Florida. This was one of three seven-car streamlined trains operating every third day along different routes between Chicago and Miami. The other two trains were the "City of Miami" and the "Dixie Flagler". The "South Wind" remained in service through the creation of Amtrak in 1971 but was soon replaced by the "Floridian".
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Sequatchie Valley Railroad The Sequatchie Valley Railroad (reporting mark SQVR) was originally part of the Jasper Branch Railroad that was founded in 1860. The SQVR took over in the mid 1990s and now runs from Bridgeport, Alabama, to near Jasper, Tennessee. It is categorized as a "Local Railroad" by the AAR.
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Florence station (Amtrak) Florence is a train station in Florence, South Carolina, United States served by Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system. Florence is served by Amtrak's "Palmetto" and "Silver Meteor" routes and is a service and smoking stop for the "Auto Train". The station was built by CSX in 1996 as a replacement for the much larger former station, which is now owned by the McLeod Regional Medical Center.
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Dillon station Dillon is a train station in Dillon, South Carolina, served by Amtrak, the United States' railroad passenger system. It was originally built by the Florence Railroad in 1893, but only as a freight station. Once the railroad was consolidated into the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1898, the passenger station was opened in 1904. The station survived the merger of the Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard Air Line Railroads into the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad in 1967, only to terminate passenger service in 1971. Amtrak service to Dillon began on June 15, 1976, with the introduction of the "Palmetto". The four-faced station clock also contains two Fahrenheit thermometers.