20th Century Limited Train Highball It! Vintage Postcard

Name: 20th Century Limited Train Highball It! Vintage Postcard
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20th Century Limited Train Highball It! Vintage Postcard

Fully customizable 20th Century Limited Train Highball It! Vintage Postcard created by SCENESFROMTHEPAST. Personalize this product with your own text and images (if the design allows it) and create a gift for yourself, a loved one, for your event or your business. Product Type Zazzle Postcard2. Style 4.25x5.6.

The 20th Century Limited was an express passenger train operated by the New York Central Railroad (NYC) from 1902 to 1967, during which time it would become known as a "National Institution" and advertised as "The Most Famous Train in the World". In the year of its last run, The New York Times said that it "...was known to railroad buffs for 65 years as the world's greatest train". The train traveled between Grand Central Terminal (GCT) in New York City and LaSalle Street Station in Chicago, Illinois along the railroad's "Water Level Route". The NYC inaugurated this train as direct competition to the Pennsylvania Railroad, aimed at upper class as well as business travelers between the two cities. It made few station stops along the way and used track pans en route to take water at speed. Beginning on June 15, 1938, when it got streamlined equipment, it made the 960.7-mile journey in 16 hours, departing New York City westbound at 6:00 P.M. Eastern Time and arriving at Chicago's LaSalle Street Station the following morning at 9:00 A.M. Central Time, averaging 60 miles per hour. For a brief period after World War II, the eastward schedule was shortened to 15½ hours. Equal with the 20th Century Limited 's reputation for speed was its style, described as "spectacularly understated ... suggesting exclusivity and sophistication". Passengers walked to and from the train on a plush, crimson carpet which was rolled out in New York and Chicago and was specially designed for the 20th Century Limited. "Getting the red carpet treatment" passed into the language from this memorable practice.

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