List of named passenger trains of the United States (D-H)

This article contains a list of named passenger trains in the United States, with names beginning D through H.

 
List of named passenger trains in the United States

Contents

D

Train Name Railroad Train Endpoints Operated
Dakota 400 Chicago & North Western Chicago - Rapid City, SD 1950–1963
Dakotan Great Northern Williston, ND - St. Paul, MN  
Dan'l Webster New Haven New York, NY – Boston, MA 1957–
Day Express New York Central New York, NY – Niagara Falls, NY
Day White Mountains New Haven and Boston & Maine New York, NY – White River Junction, VT  
De Luxe Santa Fe Chicago - Los Angeles 1911–1917
Del Monte Southern Pacific Monterey, CA – San Francisco, CA 1890s–1971
Delta Eagle Missouri Pacific Memphis, TN – Tallulah, LA 1941–1954
Denali Star Alaska Railroad Anchorage, AK – Fairbanks, AK  ?–present
Denver Zephyr Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (1936–1971)
Amtrak (1971–1975)		 Chicago, IL – Denver, CO 1936–1975
Des Moines Limited Wabash St. Louis, MO - Des Moines, IA  
Des Moines Rocket Rock Island Chicago, IL – Des Moines, IA 1937–?
Des Moines-Omaha Limited Rock Island Chicago - Omaha, NE  
Desert Wind Amtrak Los Angeles, CA – Chicago, IL October 28, 1979 – May 12, 1997
Detroit & New York Express Grand Trunk Western New York, NY – Chicago, IL  
Detroit Arrow Pennsylvania and Wabash Chicago, IL – Detroit, MI  
Detroiter New York Central New York, NY – Detroit, MI  
Detroit Express Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Mackinaw City, MI – Houghton, MI  
Detroit Express Grand Trunk Western Chicago, IL – Detroit, MI  
Detroit Express Pennsylvania New York, NY – Detroit, MI  
Detroit Express Wabash Chicago, IL – Detroit, MI  
Detroit – Grand Rapids – Kalamazoo Express Michigan Central Detroit, MI – Kalamazoo, MI  
Detroit Limited Wabash St. Louis, MO – Detroit, MI  
Detroit Night Express Michigan Central Chicago, IL – Detroit, MI  
Detroit Night Express New York Central Indianapolis, IN – Detroit, MI  
Detroit Special New York Central Chicago, IL – Detroit, MI  
Detroiter New York Central New York - Detroit 1911-?
DeWitt Clinton New York Central Chicago, IL – Toledo, OH  
DeWitt Clinton   New York, NY – Albany, NY  
Diplomat Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Reading Railroad, Central Railroad of New Jersey St. Louis, MO – Washington, DC – New York, NY 1930–1961
Dixiana Chicago and Eastern Illinois, Louisville and Nashville, Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis, Central of Georgia, Atlantic Coast Line, Florida East Coast Chicago, IL – Miami, FL 1942–1942
Dixie Express Chicago & Eastern Illinois, Louisville & Nashville Chicago, IL – New Orleans, LA  
Dixie Flagler Chicago and Eastern Illinois, Louisville and Nashville, Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis, Central of Georgia, Atlantic Coast Line, Florida East Coast Chicago, IL – Miami, FL 1940–1954
Dixie Flyer Chicago and Eastern Illinois, Louisville and Nashville, Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis, Central of Georgia, Atlantic Coast Line Chicago - Jacksonville, FL  
Dixieland Louisville & Nashville   1954–
Dominion Express Pennsylvania Washington, D.C. - Buffalo, NY  
Down Easter New York, New Haven & Hartford, Boston & Maine, Maine Central, Canadian Pacific, Canadian National New York, NY – Halifax, NS 1929
Downeaster Amtrak Boston, MA – Portland, ME  
Duluth & Boston Express Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Duluth, MN – Sault Ste. Marie, MI  
Duluth-Superior Limited Chicago & North Western Chicago - Madison, WI - Duluth, MN  
Duquesne Pennsylvania Railroad,
later Penn Central,
later Amtrak		 New York City – Pittsburgh, PA

E

Train Name Railroad Train Endpoints Operated
East Coast Flyer Pere Marquette Chicago, IL – Grand Rapids, MI  
East Wind Pennsylvania,
New York, New Haven & Hartford,
Boston & Maine		 Washington, DC – Portland, ME 1940–1942, 1946–1955[1]
Easterner Missouri Pacific Railroad Kansas City, MO – St. Louis, MO  
Easterner New York Central Cleveland, OH - New York  
Edison Pennsylvania Washington, D.C. - New York  
Egyptian Zipper Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Danville, IL – Cypress, IL 1937–
El Capitan Santa Fe Chicago, IL – Los Angeles, CA 1938–1971
Electroliner Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee Chicago, IL – Milwaukee, WI 1941–1963
Embassy Pennsylvania Railroad New York, NY – Washington, DC  
Empire Builder Great Northern (1929–1971)
Amtrak (1971–present)		 Chicago, IL – Seattle, Washington
Chicago, IL – Portland, OR		 1929–present
Empire State Express New York Central New York, NY – Chicago, IL  
Erie Limited Erie New York - Chicago 1929–1963
Ethan Allen Express Amtrak New York, NY – Rutland, VT 1996–present
Everglades New Haven, Pennsylvania, Atlantic Coast Line, Florida East Coast Boston, MA – Miami, FL 1920s–1930s
Exposition Flyer New York Central New York City – Chicago, IL 1893-1893
Exposition Flyer Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Denver & Rio Grande Western, Western Pacific Chicago, IL – Oakland, CA 1939–1949(?)

F

Train Name Railroad Train Endpoints Operated
Fast Flying Virginian (later FFV) Pennsylvania, Chesapeake & Ohio New York, NY – Cincinnati, OH 1920s–1960s
Fast Mail Chicago & North Western Cedar Rapids - Chicago  
Fast Mail Great Northern Seattle, WA - Minneapolis  
Fast Mail Milwaukee Road Chicago, IL – Minneapolis, MN  
Fast Mail Michigan Central New York, NY – Chicago, IL  
Fast Mail New York Central Chicago, IL – Toledo, OH  
Fast Mail New York Central New York, NY – Detroit, MI  
Federal Express New Haven
Pennsylvania		 Washington, D.C. - Boston, MA  
Fifth Avenue Special New York Central Chicago, IL – New York  
Fireball Ann Arbor Toledo, OH – Frankfort, MI  
Firefly Frisco Kansas City, MO – Oklahoma City, OK 1939–1960
Fisherman's Special Long Island Rail Road Jamaica, Queens - Canoe Place, New York
or Montauk, New York		 1932–1973
Fisherman's Special Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines Philadelphia, PA - Cape May Harbor, NJ
Flamingo New York Central
Pennsylvania
Louisville & Nashville
Central of Georgia
Atlantic Coast Line
Florida East Coast		 Cincinnati, OH - Jacksonville, FL  
Florida Arrow Pennsylvania
Louisville & Nashville
Atlantic Coast Line
Florida East Coast		 Chicago, IL – Miami, FL  
Florida Special Atlantic Coast Line New York – St. Petersburg, FL
Chicago, IL – Miami, FL		  
Floridian Amtrak Chicago, IL – St. Petersburg, FL
Chicago, IL – Miami, FL		 1971–1977(?)
Flying Crow Kansas City Southern Kansas City, MO – Port Arthur, TX 1928–1968
Flying Yankee Boston & Maine, Maine Central Bangor, ME – Boston, MA 1935–1957(?)
Forest City New York Central Chicago, IL – Toledo, OH  
Fort Crevecouer Illinois Terminal Railroad    
Fort Dearborn Pennsylvania, Chesapeake & Ohio New York, NY – Detroit, MI  
Fort Pitt Pennsylvania Railroad Chicago – Pittsburgh
Fort Pitt Amtrak Pittsburgh – Altoona, PA 1981–1983
Forty-Niner Union Pacific   1937–1941
Furniture City Special Pere Marquette Chicago, IL – Muskegon, MI  

G

Train Name Railroad Train Endpoints Operated
Gateway New York Central Cleveland, OH – St. Louis, MO  
General Pershing Zephyr Chicago, Burlington & Quincy St. Louis, MO - Kansas City, MO  
General Pennsylvania New York, NY/Washington, DC -- Chicago, IL  
General Wood St. Louis-San Francisco    
Genesee New York Central Buffalo, NY - New York  
George Washington Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Cincinnati, OH – Washington, DC 1932–1971
Georgian Louisville & Nashville and
Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis		 St. Louis, MO – Atlanta, GA 1946–
Glacier Discovery Alaska Railroad Anchorage, AK – Whittier, AK –present
Gold Coast Chicago & North Western
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific		 Chicago - San Francisco 1926-?
Golden Arrow Pennsylvania New York - Chicago 1929-?
Golden Gate Santa Fe   1938–
Golden Gate Special Union Pacific Omaha, NE - San Francisco  
Golden Rocket Rock Island and Southern Pacific Chicago, IL – Los Angeles, CA (cancelled before it could start in 1948)
Golden State Southern Pacific Chicago, IL – Los Angeles, CA 1947–1968
Golden State Limited Southern Pacific Chicago, IL – Los Angeles, CA 1902–1947 then renamed Golden State (see above entry).
Golden Triangle Pennsylvania Chicago - Pittsburgh, PA  
Gopher Great Northern Minneapolis, MN/St. Paul, MN – Duluth, MN/Superior, WI
Gotham Limited Amtrak New York - Newport News, VA  
Gotham Limited Pennsylvania Chicago - New York  
Governor's Special Illinois Central Chicago, IL – Springfield, IL 1968–1971
Grand Canyon Santa Fe    
Grand Rapids and Chicago Night Express Michigan Central Chicago, IL – Grand Rapids, MI  
Great Lakes Aerotrain New York Central   1956–1956
Great Valley Flyer SEPTA Thorndale, PA - Philadelphia, PA  
Great Western Limited Chicago & North Western Chicago - Minneapolis  
Green Diamond Illinois Central Chicago, IL – St. Louis, MO 1936–1968
Green Mountain Flyer New York Central,
Boston & Maine,
Rutland, and Canadian National		 New York, NY – Montreal, PQ ca. 1900–1953
Gulf Breeze Amtrak Birmingham, AL – Mobile, AL 1991–1994
Gulf Coast Limited Amtrak Mobile, AL – New Orleans, LA 1985
Gulf Coast Rebel Gulf, Mobile & Ohio St. Louis, MO – Mobile, AL 1940–1958
Gulf Coast Special Mobile & Ohio St. Louis, MO - Mobile, AL –1940
Gulf Wind Louisville and Nashville, Seaboard Air Line New Orleans, LA – Jacksonville, FL 1949–1971
The Gull[2] Boston & Maine,
Maine Central,
Canadian Pacific, and
Canadian National		 Boston, MA – Halifax, NS 1930–1959

H

Train Name Railroad Train Endpoints Operated
Havana Special Pennsylvania, Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac, Atlantic Coast Line, Florida East Coast New York, NY – Key West, FL (to 1935)
New York, NY – Miami, FL		  
Hawkeye Illinois Central Chicago - Sioux City, IA  
Heartland Flyer Amtrak Oklahoma City, OK – Fort Worth, TX June 14, 1999 –
Henry Hudson   New York, NY – Albany, NY  
Henry M. Flagler Florida East Coast Jacksonville, FL – Miami, FL 1939–1940
Hiawatha Amtrak Chicago, IL – Milwaukee, WI  
Hiawatha Milwaukee Road Various  
Hoosier Monon Railroad Chicago, IL – Indianapolis, IN 1947–
Hoosier State Amtrak Chicago, IL – Indianapolis, IN  
Hopi Santa Fe Chicago - Los Angeles  
Hot Springs Limited Rock Island St. Louis, MO – Hot Springs, AR  ?–1948
Hot Springs-Panama Limited Rock Island St. Louis, MO – Hot Springs, AR  
Hot Springs Special Missouri Pacific Memphis, TN – Hot Springs, AR  ?–1949
Houstonian Missouri Pacific New Orleans, LA-Houston, TX  
Hummer Alton Chicago - Kansas City, MO 1880-?
Humming Bird Louisville & Nashville, Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Chicago, IL/St. Louis, MO (originally Cincinnati, OH) – New Orleans, LA 1946–1969
Huron Shore Express Detroit and Mackinac Railway Bay City, MI – Alpena, MI  
Hustler Southern Pacific Dallas, TX – Houston, TX  

References

  1. ^ Johnson (1985) p.112
  2. ^ Canadian National Railways. Passenger Time Tables: April 28 to October 26, 1957. p. 7
 
List of named passenger trains in the United States