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The Empire Connection was double-tracked north of 39th Street to south of the Spuyten Duyvil Bridge in the mid-1990s. On April 7, 1991, all of Amtrak's trains departing for or arriving from Albany and points north began using the Empire Connection into Penn Station, ending Amtrak service to Grand Central. [20]
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Cape Codder (train) Capitols (Amtrak train) Cascadia (train) Champion (train) Charter Oak (train) Chesapeake (train, 1994–1995) Chesapeake (train) City of San Francisco (train) Clamdigger (train) Clocker (train) Coast Daylight; Colonial (Amtrak train) Connecticut Connector; Connecticut Valley Service; Connecticut Yankee (train)
The Pioneer was an Amtrak long-distance passenger train that ran between Seattle and Chicago via Portland, Boise, Salt Lake City, and Denver.Operating from 1977 to 1997, the Pioneer was the last passenger rail route to serve Wyoming, Southern Idaho, or Eastern Oregon.
Senator Howard Cannon (D-Nevada) pushed Amtrak hard to create a train which served Las Vegas, and Amtrak considered replacing the Southwest Limited, its existing Chicago – Los Angeles train, with such a service. In the end, the Southwest Limited remained and Amtrak introduced the Desert Wind, which made its first run on October 28, 1979.
By the time Amtrak took over the nation’s passenger rail service in 1971, just one train a day served Nashville; by the end of the decade, it, too, had ceased operations.
This listing includes current and discontinued routes operated by Amtrak since May 1, 1971. Some intercity trains were also operated after 1971 by the Alaska Railroad, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad, Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, Georgia Railroad, Reading Company, and Southern Railway.
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