<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Bob Rathke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bobrathke@comcast.net" target="_blank">bobrathke@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">In the late 1980's and 90's there were two Chicago trains: the Capitol Limited via the old PR line along the Ohio River, and the Broadway Limited via the old B&O line (Etna-New Castle-Youngstown). The train names and routes were flipped from the pre-Amtrak routes of the old PRR and B&O flagship train.<br>
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Also, when the Broadway Limited route was started on the B&O, a crossover track was built under or near the Bloomfield Bridge to allow the train to back into the PRR station, then continue eastbound on the PRR to N.Y. or westbound on the B&O to Youngstown. That crossover is no longer needed since the Capitol Limited is the only Chicago train that now stops in Pittsburgh.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The Bloom-Field connector is still used daily so the Capitol can come in via the Fort Wayne and continue via the B&O to DC.<br><br></div><div>One of the members of the PRRT&HS recounts finding this grade and having track reinstalled so this could be done.<br>
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