I saw a picture in a book of a train taken in 1941. The caption said it was New York Central's Lake Shore Limited.
Could this be correct? I did not know that New York Central operated the Lake Shore Limited. I thought that was a name Amtrak came up with. Did New York Central's Lake Shore Limited use the same route as the 20th Century Limited? I will guess that it was not as luxurious and not as fast as the 20th Century.
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Posted by Steve4031 (Member # 1517) on :
I don't know the exact details, but the NYC ran dozens of passenger trains between the east coast and midwest at this time. The lakeshore was more than likely a less glamorous option to the Century.
Posted by CarterB (Member # 1439) on :
From a 1924 Big Four timetable:
* No. 19 - "LAKE SHORE LIMITED" -- Daily
* Sleeping Car - Boston to Cincinnati (12-Sec DR)(from B&A No 15 and NYC No. 11) * Parlor Car - Cleveland to Cincinnati (DR) Two * Dining Car - Cleveland to Cincinnati * Coaches - Cleveland to Cincinnati
Posted by trainman1 (Member # 1392) on :
By the '50s, though, the New York Central was using the Lake Shore Limited name for, as Steve4031 guessed, one of the other trains on the New York/Boston-Chicago route, providing both coach and sleeper service and making more stops along the way than the Century.
Posted by dilly (Member # 1427) on :
When I was a kid during the late 50s through mid-60s, my family took the New York Central from New York to Cleveland each summer.
I recall riding on both the Lake Shore Limited and the Cleveland Limited. They stopped at the same cities as today's Lake Shore Limited: New York, Albany, Schenectady, Utica, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Erie, and Cleveland (where they went after that is a mystery -- I never went beyond Cleveland). Unfortunately, most of the grand old train stations along the route are now either gone or abandoned.
We also stopped at Poughkeepsie, NY and East Cleveland, OH -- stops that Amtrak's LSL doesn't make.
Posted by Konstantin (Member # 18) on :
Thank you for all of the replies. That satifies my curiousity.
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