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The Cincinnati Limited was a named train of the Pennsylvania Railroad; the train traveled from New York City's Pennsylvania Station to the Cincinnati Union Terminal. It was a rival to New York Central's Ohio State Limited. The Cincinnati Limited carried connecting sleeping cars to the Louisville and Nashville Railroad's Cincinnati to New Orleans Pan American.[1][2] By the mid-1950s, the sleeper extension on L&N lines ended at Memphis instead of New Orleans.[3][4]

Cincinnati Limited

Overview
Service type	Inter-city rail
Status	Discontinued
Locale	Midwestern United States Mid-Atlantic United States
First service	1920
Last service	1971
Former operator(s)	Pennsylvania Railroad Penn Central (1968-1971)
Route
Termini	New York, New York Cincinnati, Ohio
Distance travelled	755.1 miles (1,215.2 km)
Service frequency	Daily
Train number(s)	41 (westbound); 40 (eastbound)
On-board services
Seating arrangements	Reclining seat coaches
Sleeping arrangements	Sections, Roomettes and double bedrooms (1954)
Catering facilities	Dining car, Lounge car, Bar lounge car
Observation facilities	Observation car
Technical
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)

The train was sustained into the era of the Penn Central, the successor of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Both the Cincinnati Limited and the Pan American ended service on April 30, 1971, as passenger trains moved over to Amtrak.

Stations west of Harrisburg

The train ran at limited stations from Pittsburgh to Columbus, in comparison to the PRR's Penn Texas which bypassed most of them.[5]

• Lewistown station (westbound only)
• Altoona station
• Pittsburgh Union Station
• Steubenville (eastbound only)
• Columbus Union Station
• Xenia (westbound only)
• Norwood
• Winton Place
• Cincinnati Union Terminal

Consist Samples

Train 40, August 2, 1949. Sampled at Sunnyside Yard, Long Island[6]

GG1 4875

BM70N Baggage-mail 5236

B60b Baggage-express 9255

P70GSR Modernized heavyweight coach 4342

P70KR Modernized heavyweight coach 4255

12-1 Betterment heavyweight sleeper Richard Montgomery

21-Rmt Lightweight sleeper Hamilton Inn

D70DR Kitchen-Dorm 4683

D70CR Full Diner 4684

2-1 Heavyweight sleeper-lounge Sun Gold

21-Rmt Lightweight sleeper Sharon Inn

12-4 Lightweight sleeper Clyde Creek

10-6 Lightweight sleeper Towanda Rapids

10-6 Lightweight sleeper Turtle Rapids

12-4 Lightweight sleeper Cloud Creek

2-1-1 Lightweight sleeper-lounge-obs Samuel Rea

References

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