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Discussion relating to the NYC and subsidiaries, up to 1968. Visit the NYCS Historical Society for more information.

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 #1542611  by charlesriverbranch
 
I'm looking at a New York Central timetable (Form 1001) dated April 25, 1965.

The railroad advertises two daily trains, Numbers 50/51 and Numbers 61/46, between New York and Montreal, even though New York Central didn't own any track north of Albany, where these trains ran as Delaware and Hudson trains #34/35 and #9/10. Apparently these trains ran with NYC equipment, even though most of their route was D&H.

They also ran train #303/304, the James Whitcomb Riley, which seems to have run most of its route as Chesapeake and Ohio #1/4, between Chicago and Virginia via Cincinnati. In a later timetable dated December 3, 1967, this train is still listed as a named train, while all the other NYC trains have only numbers. I'm guessing it was a C&O train running on NYC rails between Cincinnati and Chicago; am I right?
 #1542701  by edbear
 
The Riley was an NYC train between Chicago and Cincinnati. It carried a through sleeper from Chicago to the Tidewater Virginia via the C & O from Cincinnati. A single car, not a through train. The Riley was the only named train left on the NYC after 12/3/1967.