N&W/Southern thru passenger service

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Yes: D&RGW, SR, Rock Island, Georgia Railroad, and the Reading did not join
Amtrak in May 1971.  Plus a few other railroads continued their commuter
service in and around Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, New York and
California.

J. Kelling

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:10 PM, NW Mailing List
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> Denver, Rio Grande & Western was another hold-out.****

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> George Weber****

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> *Subject:* Re: N&W/Southern thru passenger service****

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> I seem to remember Rock Island as the other hold out.****

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> *Sent:* Tue, November 27, 2012 6:03:42 AM

> *Subject:* Re: N&W/Southern thru passenger service

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> Not to be forgotten, my list friends, is that the Southern ran their three

> Lynchburg trains well after Amtrak started. Without looking up dates, the

> Lynchburg Special (the remnant of the Birmingham Special or Tennessean) was

> cancelled first. The Piedmont, an SR Washington/Atlanta (?) only train was

> next. The Southern Crescent survived by becoming part of AMTRAK in the fall

> of '78. The D&RGW was the only (I think)other RR to keep their regularly

> scheduled passenger trains after AMTRAK.

> Charlie Long

> Lynchburg, VA

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> >Subject: Re: N&W/Southern thru passenger service

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> >Thanks for the answers.  I reason I asked was a photo in the new Southern

> in color V3 was captioned as a southbound train that would be going over

> the N&W. It was dated for after Amtrak day.  So I say the caption is wrong!

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> >James Wall

> >Rural Hall, NC

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