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<p>According to the August 1938 schedule for the 20th Century Limited, as shown at Streamliner Schedules, the Century stopped at Harmon, Albany, Syracuse, and Buffalo to receive passengers; it stopped at Englewood to discharge passengers. Eastbound it stopped at Englewood and Toledo to receive passengers, and discharged them at Albany and Harmon. </p> <p>The 1956 Century stopped at Harmon and Albany to receive passengers. It discharged them at Englewood. Eastbound it stopped at Englewood to pick-up passengers, and it stopped at Harmon to discharge them. </p> <p>According to the April 1967 schedule, the 20th Century Limited stopped at Croton-Harmon, Albany, and Syracuse to receive passengers. It also had coordinated flag stops at Toledo, Elkhart, South Bend, Gary, and Englewood to receive and discharge passengers. By 1967 the train carried coaches and a sleeper coach.</p> <p>In 1938 and 1956 the train would have made four or five stops between Albany and Englewood to change crews. It would have made the same number of crew changes in 1967, I believe. Whether any of them were co-functional with the passenger stops is unknown, although I presume some of them were.</p> <p>Serious business people are not going to spend nine or ten hours on a train to get from A to B when they can fly there in a couple of hours. Like it or not, the long distance train is dead, although Amtrak, which is driven by politics, cannot admit it. The best outcome for the U.S. is moderate speed, affordable trains over relatively short distances in high density corridors.</p>
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