Tuesday, June 11, 2019

the 'Twilight Limited'


Artwork by David Tutwiler.  "The Twilight Limited was a named passenger train which initially operated between Chicago, Illinois, and Detroit, Michigan. The New York Central Railroad introduced the train in 1926, and it continued until the formation of Amtrak  in 1971, although it lost its name in 1967. Amtrak renamed the train St. Clair, feeling that the name "Twilight Limited" had undesirable connotations and imagery for a company trying to save passenger rail service. Amtrak revived the name in 1976 for a new train frequency on the 306 mile (489 km) Chicago–Detroit corridor, and kept the name until all trains on that corridor were renamed Wolverine in 2004." (Wikipedia)

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