Daylight Speedliner
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The Daylight Speedliner was an American named passenger train of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) in the 1950s and early 1960s. Equipped with three or four streamlined, self-propelled Budd Rail Diesel Cars (RDCs) coupled together, it initially operated between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, via Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D. C. as Trains #21–22.[1]
The B&O had been using RDCs in local Baltimore–Washington, D.C. commuter service since 1950. Pleased with their reliability and lower operating costs compared to heavyweight passenger trains drawn by steam locomotives, the B&O replaced its Washingtonian steam train with the Daylight Speedliner on October 28, 1956.[2]
After B&O discontinued passenger service north of Baltimore on April 26, 1958, the Daylight Speedliner operated between Baltimore and Pittsburgh, covering the 333-mile (536 km) route on a seven-hour schedule, until its discontinuation on January 21, 1963.[2].
In 1961, the westbound Daylight Speedliner, operating as B&O's Train # 21, departed Baltimore at 9:40 a.m. and then Washington, D.C., at 10:30 a.m. arriving in Pittsburgh at 4:50 p.m.[3] Unusual for RDCs, the lead car was configured as a combination dining car/baggage car/coach offering full meal service.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ Herbert H. Harwood, Jr. (1990). Royal Blue Line. Sykesville, Md: Greenberg Publishing. ISBN 0-89778-155-4.
- ^ a b Harry Stegmaier, Baltimore & Ohio Passenger Service, Vol. 2 – Route of the Capitol Limited. Lynchburg, Va.: TLC Publishing, 1997 (ISBN 1-883-089-00X).
- ^ Baltimore & Ohio Railroad — Passenger Train Schedules, October 29, 1961.
- ^ Stephen J. Salamon, David P. Oroszi, and David P. Ori (1993). Baltimore and Ohio – Reflections of the Capitol Dome. Silver Spring, Md.: Old Line Graphics. ISBN 1-879314-08-8.
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