General Discussion (Classic Trains)

Mark

Did this train operate with sleeping cars?

Al

passengerfan:

Mark

Did this train operate with sleeping cars?

Al

(11) Yes

Mark

Mark

Did this train go North from Chicago?

Al

passengerfan:

Mark

Did this train go North from Chicago?

Al

(12) No

Mark

wanswheel:

Did the state in the railroad's name enter the Union after 1776?

(13) No

Mark

wanswheel:

New York Central?

(14) Yes

Mark

wanswheel:

Did the state in the railroad's name enter the Union after 1776?

There was no Union to be entered until the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union were adopted by the Continental Congress 15 November 1777. These Articles declared that the thirteen states were united. http://www.usconstitution.net/articles.html

Wasn't the question really, "Was the state in the railroad's name one of the original thirteen?"

Johnny

Deggesty:

wanswheel:

Did the state in the railroad's name enter the Union after 1776?

There was no Union to be entered until the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union were adopted by the Continental Congress 15 November 1777. These Articles declared that the thirteen states were united. http://www.usconstitution.net/articles.html

Wasn't the question really, "Was the state in the railroad's name one of the original thirteen?"

Johnny

Well, I'm not sure if we deserve a point to be credited back to us, but at least we know it was NYC. 

Let me ask:  Was any part of the name of the train any kind of name of a personage (live, dead, mythological, whatever)?   

COUNTS AS NAME (an example, not a proposed answer):  "The Mercury Express." 

DOES NOT COUNT:  "The Dogwood." 

Deggesty:

wanswheel:

Did the state in the railroad's name enter the Union after 1776?

Wasn't the question really, "Was the state in the railroad's name one of the original thirteen?"

Johnny

Johnny, that's what I interpreted Mike's question to mean.

Mark

al-in-chgo:

Let me ask:  Was any part of the name of the train any kind of name of a personage (live, dead, mythological, whatever)?   

(15) No

Mark

Now that you have the RR, the answers to some of the prior questions ought to make identifying the train a slam dunk.

Mark

Mark, I would  guess the Twentieth Century Limited, but part of its route ot of NYC/GCS was powered by "shoe" and the route is more than 500 miles long.

We know that the train used what are today called "slab-sided" coaches as opposed to fluted or streamlined ones, that its route was less than 500 miles, no part of its run was electrified, that one of the terminals was Chicago but the other one was not Detroit.   Also that at least some of its run was over the old New York Central. 

I'm a loss.  The only clarification I can think of this time is to ask whether this train, at any point in its history as a passenger train, carried "slumbercoaches" (aka sleepercoaches -- no need to be picky about the brand name).   -  al