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9-1989

• Montrealer was to be reinstated 7-18-1989 via New London, had been suspended 4-1987 with Springfield-Burlington bus as a substitute

10-1989

• Proposed Rocky Mount-Raleigh-Charlotte to connect with Palmetto
• Montrealer restored 7-18-1989, had been suspended 4-6-1987, some history

11-1989

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12-1989

can't find

1-1990

• Cardinal to return to Cinci Union Terminal
• 10-30-1989 timetable added southbound Metroliner train 201 Downingtown-Philly-DC
• New Birmingham-Mobile section of Crescent is Gulf Breeze

2-1990

• Talks about Broadway Limited and Capital Limited moving
• Triweekly Texas Eagle scheduled to begin daily Chicago-Houston and Chicago-San Antonio 1-20-1990, but Houston sleeper dropped

3-1990

4-1990

5-1990

6-1990

• Atlantic City Express began daily Richmond Staples Mill Road-Atlantic City 4-1-1990; AC service first ran 5-23-1989?; plans for service to Philly Airport

7-1990

• Carolinian was to return 5-12-1990 Charlotte-Rocky Mount, connects with Palmetto at Rocky Mount; 1984-85 version connected at Richmond

8-1990

• CSX Clifton Forge-Charlottesville line to stay, allowing Cardinal to keep using it
• Article about Carolinian

9-1990

• Broadway Limited and Capitol Limited were to move 7-15-1990 but holding off, more info
• Station moved from Bloomington to Normal

10-1990

11-1990

• AC-Philly Airport service began 6-1-1990 with code TRN for Midway Airlines
• Broadway/Capitol moving dates pushed back again to 11-11-1990

12-1990

• New track connection in Cleveland for Capitol Limited
• Article about Cardinal

1-1991

• Attempts to save Calumet

2-1991

• Moved Broadway Limited and Capitol Limited 11-11-1990; new stations were Akron, OH, Youngstown, OH, Alliance, OH; another trip to South Bend, IN, Toledo, OH, Cleveland, OH; left Warsaw, IN, Fort Wayne, IN, Lima, OH, Crestline, OH, Canton, OH

3-1991

4-1991

• Atlantic City Express to Philly Airport ended 1-8-1991 after Midway Airlines cut back on service; extended to Harrisburg and Washington-AC train added

5-1991

• Studying separating Desert Wind or Pioneer from California Zephyr east of SLC (currently divide), might return to UP across Wyoming - Pioneer must leave Seattle at 5 AM to make the connection at SLC; announced that mid-June 1991 the Pioneer would operate separately over UP to Denver, combining with the others there, with a SLC-Ogden bus connection

6-1991

• Huge 20th anniversary stuff

7-1991

• Empire Connection opened 4-7-1991
• Through coach reinstated with 4-7-1991 timetable between Chicago and Miami via Washington on Capitol Limited and Silver Star, previously operated 10-1984 - 10-1986; 2:43 southbound and 2:25 northbound layover
• Calumet made its last run 5-3-1991

8-1991

• Article about Empire Connection
• Pioneer was to move its California Zephyr split from SLC to Denver 6-16-1991, restoring Wyoming service
• Capitol Limited added stops at Elkhart, IN and Elyria, OH - looks like they were already on the Lake Shore Limited

9-1991

• Article about Pioneer back in Wyoming

10-1991

• Talks about lack of connection at Ravenna, keeping the Capitol Limited from serving Youngstown
• On 7-29-1991 Cardinal returned to Cincinnati Union Terminal, moving from River Road Station

11-1991

12-1991

• New Wisconsin-supported Hiawatha trips were successful
• Plans for Capital Corridor

1-1992

• Article about Southwest Chief

2-1992

• Two local Philly-AC Atlantic City Express trips dropped, leaving only four - Richmond, Washington, Harrisburg and Springfield (MA)

3-1992

• Article about Capitol Corridor (called Capitol) - began 12-11-1991 - LA-Sacto Spirit of California ran fall 1981 to fall 1983

4-1992

5-1992

• Maine chose Amtrak for Portland-Boston

6-1992

• Bit about Amtrak taking part of the Connecticut River Line

7-1992

8-1992

• Atlantic City Express to Harrisburg cut to Philly weekdays
• Amtrak began hauling mail RoadRailers

9-1992

• Sunset Limited to be extended to Miami 4-4-1993

10-1992

• Fast Mail (train 13 Boston-NYC) no longer carries passengers

11-1992

12-1992

• Article on Auto Train

1-1993

2-1993

3-1993

• Albuquerque former AT&SF depot destroyed by fire 1-4-1993, Amtrak moved to Greyhound terminal
• Article on Sunset Limited extension

4-1993

• Sunset Limited to be extended to Miami 4-4-1993, will not change schedule west of NO
• Article about Amtrak-operated commuter trains

5-1993

6-1993

7-1993

• Article about Sunset Limited extension

8-1993

9-1993

10-1993

• Article about Cascadia Corridor

11-1993

12-1993

1-1994

• Problems with Piedmont

2-1994

3-1994

4-1994

5-1994

• Pioneer and Texas Eagle trimmed to triweekly 11-1993; some plans

6-1994

7-1994

8-1994

9-1994

10-1994

11-1994

• Finally the short blurbs return, why the fuck were they gone from 1-1993 until now?
• Northeast Corridor Operations Business Unit to begin 10-1-1994

12-1994

• 10-30-1994 timetable: NYC-Jacksonville Palmetto extended to Tampa, Silver Meteor change to only NYC-Miami (Tampa section dropped), Silver Star still splits for Tampa and Miami, but splits in Jacksonville rather than Auburndale
• Broadway Limited uses new connection at New Castle - needed a backup move into Pittsburgh
• Mount Rainier extended from Portland south to Eugene
• Northwest Talgo renamed to Mount Hood (Talgo cars removed)
• Article on the Sunset Limited

1-1995

• Article about 4-30-1996 expiration of contracts

2-1995

• Chicago-based Intrcity Business Unit was planned to begin 1-15-1995 but may not have due to anticipated cuts
• Broadway Limited moved 10-30-1994 onto new connection at New Castle

3-1995

• Info about planned service cuts:
  • 2-1-1995
    • NYC-Charleston-Tampa daily Palmetto dies, Silver Service remains
    • NYC-New Orleans daily Crescent becomes triweekly south of Atlanta, including Birmingham-Mobile Gulf Breeze (section of Crescent?)
    • Chicago-Seattle/Portland Empire daily Builder becomes quadweekly west of St. Paul
    • Chicago-LA daily Desert Wind becomes triweekly (still served daily by California Zephyr east of SLC)
  • 4-1-1995
    • Philadelphia-Harrisburg Keystone Service dies; 640-series NYC-Harrisburg remains, as does Broadway Limited and Pennsylvanian
    • Chicago-Milwaukee Hiawatha Service dies (WTF!)
    • St. Louis-Kansas City trains die (part of the Ann Rutledge and the Mules)
    • Birmingham-Mobile Gulf Breeze dies
    • NYC-Montreal Montrealer dies
    • Atlantic City Express dies, NJ Transit keeps operating
    • Chicago-Grand Rapids Pere Marquette dies
    • Boston-DC 4 round trips (1 Metroliner) die
    • Detroit-Pontiac and Detroit-Toledo parts of Chicago trains die
    • San Jose-Roseville Capitols die; Coast Starlight, California Zephyr and San Joaquins stay
    • 2 Boston-Springfield round trips die; Lake Shore Limited stays

4-1995

• Boston-Portland on hold

5-1995

6-1995

• Amtrak cuts:
  • 6-11-1995
    • California Zephyr becomes quadweekly west of SLC on days the triweekly Desert Wind doesn't run, new western terminal is Jack London Square
    • City of New Orleans becomes quintweekly, Illini becomes quadweekly
    • Illinois Zephyr drops weekends
    • State House and Chicago-Springfield Loop die, but Ann Rutledge and Eagle stay
    • Hoosier State becomes triweekly
  • 9-10-1995
    • NYC-Chicago Cardinal replaced by triweekly Washington-Cinci
    • Broadway Limited dies, replaced by NYC-Harrisburg extended to Pittsburgh with connection to Capitol Limited
    • Triweekly Texas Eagle Dallas-Houston section replaced by bus connection at Longview
    • Considering rerouting Chicago-Port Huron-Toronto International via Detroit
• Ohio has funds to build a connection at Ravenna to allow the Capitol Limited to serve Youngstown
  • 4-2-1995 cuts:
    • Atlantic City Express died
    • Gulf Breeze died
    • Caltrans funded Capitols
    • Montrealer truncated to Washington-St. Albans Vermonter, shifted to serve Hartford and Springfield
    • Adirondack extended to Washington (!)
    • Hiawatha Service saved
    • Pere Marquette cut to quadweekly, Wolverine and Twilight Limited still run to Pontiac, Lake Cities shifted from Toledo to Detroit, bus connection to Toledo
    • Ann Rutledge continues, St. Louis Mule and Kansas City Mule brought back 7-1-1995
    • Keystone Service kept
• Seattle-Vancouver Talgo to run by summer
• Raleigh-Charlotte Piedmont to begin 5-25-1995
• Southwest Chief expected to move to former Alton between Chicago and JOliet due to congestion on the AT&SF
• Confirmation of 2-1-1995 cuts:
  • Palmetto died
  • Empire Builder became quadweekly west of St. Paul

7-1995

• Mt. Baker International to begin 5-26-1995 with Talgos, Seattle-Vancouver with stops at Bellingham, Mt. Vernon/Burlington, Everett and Edmonds
• Hoosier State days changed

8-1995

• City of New Orleans to move Jackson-Memphis 9-10-1995
• New Oakland Jack London Square depot opened 5-19-1995 (?), 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake had closed old SP 16th Street station at which time Emeryville opened, that one remains open
• Amtrak/IC first new operating agreement signed
• 5-25-1995 Raleigh-Charlotte Piedmont began

9-1995

• Illinois agreed to fund more, so Chicago-Carbondale Illini, Chicago-Quincy Illinois Zephyr and Chicago-St. Louis Statehouse stay daily, Chicago-Springfield Loop cut to weekdays
• Cape Codder continues, combined with New England Express between NYC and New Haven

10-1995

• Plans to convert triweekly Cardinal to Chicago-Washington 9-10-1995 and discontinue Hoosier State
• 9-10-1995 Broadway Limited to be replaced with NYC-Pittsburgh Three Rivers
• 10-29-1995 new daily LA-SLO using San Diegan equipment
• SP to abandon Wellton-Phoenix-Picacho track, Sunset Limited to skip Phoenix

11-1995

• Amtrak intends to keep running via Phoenix until 4-30-1996
• California Zephyr and Desert Wind changed moved from 10-29-1995 to 9-29-1995
• zomg cocaine on Southwest Chief

12-1995

• 10-29-1995 added San Diego-LA-Santa Barbara express and San Diego-SLO San Diegan
• Trains 750 and 751 Portland-Seattle for Seattle Seahawks home games - skips Olympia and Tacoma
• 10-29-1995 Chicago-Toronto International to be cut to quadweekly
• Article about Broadway Limited, last ran 9-10-1995

1-1996

• San Diego-SLO changes - one Santa Barbara train extended to SLO and renamed Central Coast San Diegan, new Express San Diegan San Diego-Santa Barbara
• Info on NortheastDirect name change 10-28-1995
• Pere Marquette resumed daily service 10-29-1995, International stayed daily
• New station at Washington, MO on all four St. Louis-KC trains
• Seattle-Eugene Mount Rainier renamed to Cascadia
• Article on City of New Orleans being moved in Mississippi

2-1996

• Coast Starlight to become Quintweekly 1-6-1996 to 3-13-1996
• New station at Royal Oak 10-29-1995 on all 3 Chicago-Detroit-Pontiac trains
• Capitols kept due to CA funding
• Capitol Limited to be extended from Washington to Florida in 1996

3-1996

• Had been proposed to eliminate Pioneer and cut California Zephyr frequency west of Denver

4-1996

• Chicago=Philadelphia-NYC through car service began 2-1-1996 on Capitol Limited and Three Rivers
• New timetable (when?) has no more NortheastDirect, Empire, Metroliner etc names
• 12-15-1995 new Windsor, VT station on Vermonter

5-1996

• Info about threatened moves due to contracts expiring
• Triweekly Crescent will extend daily service from Washington to Birmingham before 7-19-1996 (Atlanta olympics)

6-1996

• 4-14-1996 City of New Orleans became sexweekly
• 4-14-1996 new Texas Eagle station at Mineola, TX; Newport, AR dropped
• A bunch of stuff about Amtrak's 25 including timeline

7-1996

• Crescent to become daily NYC-NO 7-17-1996 to 8-7-1996 for Olympics, normally runs quadweekly west of Atlanta
• Sunset Limited last served Phoenix on trains beginning their trips 5-28-1996, station remained open with bus to Tuscon
• Southwest Chief may be rerouted between Chicago and Galesburg from the old AT&SF via Joliet to the old BN via Naperville
• 4-14-1996 Adirondack truncated from DC to NYC
• Cape Codder to run 6-29-1996 to 9-29-1996 Boston-Hyannis, train change in Providence for NYC
• 4-14-1996 two San Joaquins extended Emeryville-Oakland

8-1996

• Says in letters to the editor that Pennsylvanian and Three Rivers back into Pittsburgh Penn Station, lists others (Chicago on some, Washington on inbound Capitol Limited, Fort Worth on SB Texas Eagle, Jacksonville on EB Sunset Limited, Denver on inbound California Zephyr)
• Daily Gulf Coast Limited to be resurrected New Orleans-Mobile 6-28-1996
• Daily Silver Palm to be added after 10-1-1996 NYC-Miami via Tampa, mostly on former Palmetto, Silver Star to drop Tampa section, no more plans to extend Capitol Limited to Florida
• After around 9-1-1996 Sunset Limited to stop at Maricopa for Phoenix connection
• Southwest Chief to drop 3 IL stops - Joliet, Streator and Chillicothe, to stop at Naperville and Princeton, and consolidate to one station in Galesburg, will used new BNSF connection at Cameron west of Galesburg, opened early June

9-1996

• Chicago-Springfield Loop last ran 6-30-1996

10-1996

• New connection at Cameron opened 5-29-1996, Southwest Chief rerouted 8-1-1996
• Changes planned for 11-10-1996:
  • Texas Eagle cut south of St. Louis
  • Pioneer cut between Denver and Portland, possible substitute added Seattle-Portland
  • Desert Wind cut between SLC and LA, possible substitute LA-Las Vegas
  • Lake Shore Limited Boston section replaced by bus
  • Sunset Limited cut between Miami and probably Sanford
  • Broadway Limited to return along B&O through Akron and Youngstown
  • Empire Builder, California Zephyr, City of New Orleans, Crescent return to daily (Crescent stayed daily after Olympics)
  • Palmetto to return as Silver Palm NYC-Tampa/Florida, Silver Star Tampa section dropped
• Vermont working on restoring service to Rutland, likely extension of NYC-Albany

11-1996

• Last runs scheduled for 11-10-1996 on Pioneer, Texas Eagle, Desert Wind, Lake Shore Limited Boston section
• Vermont to begin funding Ethan Allen as extension of an Empire Service run beginning 12-1-1996
• Capitol Limited and Lake Shore Limited now stop at Toledo's Central Union Plaza (former Conrail Central Union Terminal) after renovation
• Southbound Seattle-Portland Mt. Adams Talgo to shift to Pioneer's old slot

12-1996

• Extended Three Rivers to Chicago helped with Capitol Limited cut due to Hurricane Fran
• Federal money saved Texas Eagle, Pioneer, Desert Wind, Lake Shore Limited Boston section
• Empire Builder to stay quadweekly west of MSP, Zephyr to stay quadweekly, Pioneer and Desert Wind triweekly
• City of New Orleans to go daily 11-10-1996 but run-through with Empire Builder scrubbed
• Sunset Limited to be truncated to Sanford with bus to Orlando
• Southwest Chief/Capitol Limited run-through survives, as does Silver Palm
• Broadway Limited will not return, but Three Rivers will extend 11-10-1996
• Ethan Allen to begin early December, will serve Schenectady, Saratoga Springs, Fort Edward and Rutland
• Began negotiations for Boston-Portland
• Article on Fast Mail Springfield-DC

1-1997

• Info about high speed in Michigan
• 11-10-1996 through coaches run Seattle-San Diego

2-1997

• 11-10-1996 NortheastDirect get back names, inland route returns with daily DC-Boston Bay State
• Three Rivers extended PGH-Chicago
• Article about northwest Talgos

3-1997

4-1997

• Pioneer, Desert Wind, Texas Eagle and Lake Shore Limited Boston section may run last 5-10-1997
• Mobile-New Orleans Gulf Coast Limited set to expire 3-31-1997

5-1997

6-1997

• New 5-11-1997 timetable changes:
  • SLC-LA segment of Desert Wind gone, California Zephyr returns to daily Chicago-Oakland
  • Portland-Denver Pioneer gone
  • Empire Builder and City of New Orleans may return to daily
  • Texas Eagle will stay triweekly thanks to money from Texas, but no more through cars with Sunset Limited, and will make Eagle daily
  • Money from Massachusetts to keep Lake Shroe Limited section
• Gulf Coast Limited expired 3-31-1997

7-1997

• Wants to resurrect Pioneer
• Desert Wind and Pioneer seemed doomed for 5-10-1997, Texas Eagle and Boston Lake Shore limited to continue

8-1997

• Triweekly Texas Eagle saved without through cars to Sunset Limited
• 7-1-1997 Boston-DC Night Owl to be extended to Newport News and renamed Twilight Shoreliner
• Cape Codder will not run this year as it has for 11 years
• Amtrak now stops again at Youngstown on Three Rivers after 2 years of not stopping there
• Capitols now stop at Hayward
• Article on Pioneer end

9-1997

10-1997

• Oregon funding saved Cascadia from 7-7-1997 end
• Southwest Chief dropped Emporia, KS and Marceline, MO 5-11-1997, added Mendota, IL 8-9-1997
• 67 Night Owl became Twilight Shoreliner 7-11-1997, extended to Newport News (photo page 32)

11-1997

• California Zephyr to end at Emeryville, not Oakland with 10-28-1997 timetable
• 8-1997 Sunset Limited extended Sanford to Orlando

12-1997

1-1998

• Two more San Diegans, with 10 daily round trips - 4 go north to SB, one of those beyond to SLO
• Maricopa station to open in spring

2-1998

• Plans for mail and express
• Article on the City of New Orleans

3-1998

• Daily Chicago-NYC Three Rivers began stopping at the old B&O depot in Fostoria 12-14-1997, last served by the Broadway Limited in 1995
• Article on the Sunset Limited

4-1998

• 2-2-1998 Capitols 723, 726 and 736 (San Jose-Roseville) to extend to COlfax with stops at Rocklin and Suburn
• 2-15-1998 Ethan Allen Express to gain a round trip
• Article about CB&Q Zephyrs

5-1998

• 5-17-1998 fourth weekly Texas Eagle runs all the way to LA, filling a Sunset Limited slot, and the other Texas Eagles have through cars to LA
• 4-13-1998 to 7-11-1998 four Chicago-Milwaukee Hiawathas to extend west to Watertown, WI over CP for commuters during repaving of I-94

6-1998

• 3-11-1975 easternmost Kentucky stop on Cardinal moved from 1975 Tri-State Station in Catlettsburg to 1906 C&O freight house in Ashland

7-1998

• Pennsylvanian may become another east coast-Chicago train
• 5-17-1998 timetable drops Mount Adams and Cascadia names for Cascade Service south of Seattle, timings changed

8-1998

• Plans for Boston-Portland
• Plans for Oklahoma
• Plans for extending Pennsylvanian west to Chicago via Cleveland
• Plans for Amtrak on FEC

9-1998

• Fifth San Joaquin to begin 10-1998, first to serve Sacramento rather than Oakland
• 11th San Diegan

10-1998

• Hoosier State returned 7-19-1998, had been dropped 9-1995

11-1998

• 11-7-1998 NYC-PGH Pennsylvanian to extend west to become Philadelphia-Chicago via Cleveland and Toledo, timetable change 10-25-1998 put Keystone in Pennsylvanian's old slots

12-1998

• 10-25-1998 NYC-Niagara Falls Mohawk goes from Thurdsay-SUnday to daily, fifth Capitol and 11th San Diegan
• Article on mail and express

1-1999

• 11-16-1999 new Syracuse station opened, moving from East Syracuse
• 9-19-1999 new Goleta station opened, three daily San Diegans that ended at SB now go to Goleta

2-1999

• Fifth (Sacramento) San Joaquin delayed to at least early 2-1999
• New Modesto station at Briggsmore Avenue to replace Riverbank on San Joaquins
• Albany-Rensselaer station to expand
• Article on Talgos
• Article on Coast Starlight

3-1999

• Plans for Boston-Portland, with eventual extension to Brunswick

4-1999

• 2-21-1999 first San Joaquin to Sacramento begins, at first uses the old WP, to shift to SP after rebuilding is done, will share ACE station rather than backing into ex-ATSF depot (still does! but has moved to SP)

5-1999

• Plans for Maine
• 2-20-1999 new San Antonio depot dedicated, replacing trailer, between Alamo Dome and old SP depot

6-1999

• New Fresno station planned on San Joaquin

7-1999

• 6-15-1999 Oklahoma City-Fort Worth to begin with stops at Norman, Prucell, Pauls Valley, Ardmore and Gainesville
• 12th NYC-Albany round trip added to replace earlier Adirondack

8-1999

• 5-16-1999 Mayflower train 171 lost its name, as did every other non-Metroliner NEC except the Twilight Shoreliner
• Plans for Maine

9-1999

• Plans to extend Ethan Allen Express to Burlington on the Vermont Railway

10-1999

• Plans for Ethan Allen Express to Burlington, separate connecting service Rutland-Burlington

11-1999

• 9-2-1999 another Bellingham-Seattle Cascade Corridor trip planned
• 8-7-1999 moved SLC depot 1.5 blocks west from annex next to former D&RGW due to track relocation
• 8-16-1999 new state-sponsored connection over Vermont Railway Rutland-Burlington
• Article on Chicago-Detroit line

12-1999

1-2000

2-2000

• Kentucky Cardinal Chicago-Jeffersonville was to begin 12-17-1999, renamed and extended Chicago-Indianapolis Hoosier State
• San Joaquin stopped serving Riverbank, CA 11-8-1999 in favor of Modesto
• Article about Keystone Corridor plans

3-2000

4-2000

• Boston-New York electrification started 1-31-2000 with Acela Regional trains

5-2000

• Some future plans

6-2000

• Article about future plans
• Plan for Ethan Allen reroute

7-2000

• Vermont service to continue

8-2000

• Texas Eagle - new southbound stop 5-21-2000 at Eagle Exchange in Gilmer, TX with buses to Marshall and Longview which northbound still serves

9-2000

• Plans for Detroit with 5-21-2000 changes in Lake Cities and Twilight Limited
• Plans for Hiawatha extension to Fond Du Lac
• Lake Country Limited began 6-15-2000 Janesville-Chicago
• Plans for Skyline Connection nee Manhattan Limited NYC-Chicago

10-2000

• New Lorton Auto Train terminal opened 7-18-2000
• New Bakersfield station opened 1 mile south of the old 7-4-2000
• Plans for TF Green

11-2000

• Delays for planned Albany-Manchester, VT service
• Indefinite delay on Hiawatha extension to Fond Du Lac

12-2000

• New Merced, CA station opened 8-26-2000 on San Joaquin line, on the site of the original Santa Fe building, with bus connections to Yosemite Park

1-2001

• Acela Express began 12-11-2000

2-2001

• Article about Amtrak plans including Skyline Connection