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Jacksonville station Jacksonville station is an Amtrak train station in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. It serves the "Silver Meteor" and "Silver Star" trains as well as the Thruway Motorcoach to Lakeland. The station lies next door to a freight facility with its own platform and is also just east of Norfolk Southern's Simpson Yard.
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Silver Meteor The Silver Meteor is a passenger train operated by Amtrak between New York City and Miami, Florida. The first diesel-powered streamliner between New York and Florida, since being introduced by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL) in 1939, it remains in operation now. The train is part of Amtrak's "Silver Service" along with the "Silver Star", another former SAL streamliner.
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Memphis Central Station Memphis Central Station, referred to as Grand Central Station prior to 1944, is a passenger terminal in Memphis, Tennessee. Located along Main Street and G.E. Patterson Boulevard in Downtown Memphis, it currently serves Amtrak's "City of New Orleans" route and the MATA Trolley system. The building opened in 1914
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Royal Palm (train) The Royal Palm was a named train of the Southern Railway which ran from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Jacksonville, Florida, and then on the Florida East Coast Railway to Miami, Florida. The train was discontinued in 1970.
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Cincinnati Limited The Cincinnati Limited was a named train of the Pennsylvania Railroad; the train traveled from New York City's Pennsylvania Station to the Cincinnati Union Terminal. It was a rival to New York Central's "Ohio State Limited". The "Cincinnati Limited" carried connecting Sleeping cars to the Louisville and Nashville Railroad's Cincinnati to New Orleans "Pan American". Both the "Cincinnati Limited" and the "Pan American" ended service on April 30, 1971, as passenger trains moved over to Amtrak.
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St. Johns River Terminal Company The St. Johns River Terminal Company (reporting mark SJRT) was part of the Southern Railway's line in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
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Meteor (train) The Meteor was a named passenger train operated by the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (a.k.a. SLSF or "the Frisco"). It ran overnight between Oklahoma City and St. Louis via Tulsa and was later extended to Lawton, Oklahoma on July 18, 1955. The name was shared with a branch line "Meteor" running between Monett, Missouri, and Paris, Texas. Later this line was truncated to terminate at Fort Smith, Arkansas. These Frisco trains should not be confused with Amtrak's "Silver Meteor".
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Blue Bird (train) The Blue Bird was a streamlined passenger train operated by the Wabash Railroad and its successor the Norfolk and Western Railway between Chicago, Illinois, and St. Louis, Missouri. It operated from 1938 to 1971. Beginning in 1950 it was one of the few Wabash passenger trains to carry a dome car and the first dome train in regular operation between the two cities. The train was cut back to Decatur, Illinois, in 1968 and renamed City of Decatur. Amtrak did not retain the "City of Decatur", and it made its last run on April 30, 1971.
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Hammond/Whiting station Hammond/Whiting is a train station in Hammond, Indiana served by Amtrak, the U.S. national railroad passenger system. The "Wolverine" is the only Amtrak service that stops at this station. The station also served as the split with the "Three Rivers" until March 7, 2005 when the "Three Rivers" was terminated. The station was once serviced, but is now bypassed by the "Capitol Limited", the "Lake Shore Limited", and the "Pere Marquette".
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Central station (Jacksonville Skyway) Central station is a station of the Jacksonville Skyway in Jacksonville, Florida and the transfer point for the system's Northbank and Southbank lines. It is located on Bay Street between Pearl and Julia Streets in Downtown Jacksonville. The station is near the Jacksonville Landing.
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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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Boynton Beach station Boynton Beach station is a Tri-Rail commuter rail station in Boynton Beach, Florida. It is located off High Ridge Road, north of Gateway Boulevard and west of Interstate 95, on a side street leading from High Ridge Road known as Northwest Commerce Park Drive. It officially opened to service December 18, 1989 and remodeled in 2003. Parking is available at this station at the dead end of Northwest Commerce Park Drive, which loops in front of the station and has a bus lane. along the loop.
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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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Twin Cities Zephyr The Twin Cities Zephyr was a streamlined passenger train on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q), running between Chicago and the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul in Minnesota. It was the second "Zephyr" service introduced by CB&Q after the record-setting Denver–Chicago "dawn to dusk dash" of the "Pioneer Zephyr" trainset.
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Southern Belle (KCS train) The Southern Belle was a named passenger train service offered by Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS) from the 1940s through the 1960s, running between Kansas City, Missouri and New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Vacationer (train) The Vacationer was a seasonal passenger train operated by Amtrak between New York City and Miami, Florida. The "Vacationer", like its predecessor the "Florida Special", was designed to supplement regular Northeast—Florida service during the winter months. It made its first run on December 15, 1972.
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Biloxi station Biloxi is a closed and unstaffed Amtrak intercity train station in Biloxi, Mississippi. There is no station building; there is only a covered platform. Service on this portion of the "Sunset Limited" has been suspended since Hurricane Katrina struck Biloxi in 2005. The station is across the street from the Biloxi Transit Center, which serves Coast Transit Authority and Greyhound buses.
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Kentucky Cardinal The Kentucky Cardinal was a nightly 312 mile passenger train operated by Amtrak from 1999 to 2003 between Chicago, Illinois, and Louisville, Kentucky, via Indianapolis, Indiana. On the three days that the "Cardinal" ran, the "Kentucky Cardinal" operated as a section, splitting at Indianapolis. On the other four days, it ran on its own to Chicago.
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Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Passenger Terminal The Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Passenger Terminal is a historic train station in Mobile, Alabama, United States. Architect P. Thornton Marye designed the Mission Revival style terminal for the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. It was completed in 1907 at a total cost of $575,000. The Mobile and Ohio merged with the Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad in 1940 to form the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad. Passenger service into the station was discontinued by the late 1950s after which all passenger trains in Mobile called at a nearby facility, Mobile station. The building continued to serve as railroad offices. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 15, 1975. It had suffered neglect, extensive interior alteration, and partial removal of the train shed by this time. The Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad vacated the old terminal building in 1986 and for fifteen years it suffered from demolition-by-neglect. The Alabama Historical Commission and the Alabama Trust for Historic Preservation named it as one of their "Places in Peril" in 1996. In 2001 the City of Mobile and a private company invested more than $18 million to restore the local landmark with the developer taking advantage of the Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentive program. Today the building houses private offices and the city's Metro Transit Authority. The renovated facility was extensively damaged by flooding during Hurricane Katrina.
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Chesapeake and Ohio 614 Chesapeake & Ohio 614 is a 4-8-4 steam locomotive built by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio, in June 1948 for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) as a member of the J3a class. As one of the last commercially built steam locomotives in the United States, the locomotive was built with the primary purpose of hauling long, heavy, high speed express passenger trains for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway such as the "George Washington" and the "Fast Flying Virginian". Retired from active service in the late 1950s, the 614 was preserved and placed on display at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1979, the locomotive was restored to operating condition and was used for extensive mainline excursion service from the 1970s until the late 1990s. Today the locomotive is on temporary display at the C&O Railway Heritage Center in Clifton Forge, Virginia awaiting a potential return to steam.
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Loop (Amtrak train) The Loop was a daily passenger train operated by Amtrak between Chicago and Springfield, Illinois. The "Loop" began on April 27, 1986, with funding support from the state of Illinois. The train acted as a counterpart to the "State House", departing Chicago in the morning and returning in the afternoon. Funding shortfalls eliminated Saturday service in mid-1995, and the train ended altogether on June 28, 1996, after Illinois withdrew its support.
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Cardinal (train) The Cardinal is a thrice-weekly long distance passenger train operated by Amtrak between New York Penn Station and Chicago Union Station, with major intermediate stops at Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Charlottesville, Charleston, Huntington, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis. Trains depart New York on Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and depart Chicago on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. The 1146 mi trip between the termini of the route takes 26⁄ hours.