That Was a Long Time Ago

With each passing year, the number of people who remember the New York Central Railroad, let alone its passengers trains, becomes smaller.

The Central became part of Penn Central in February 1968. By then most of its passenger trains were gone.

Even among those who do remember, not many will recall the DeWitt Clinton or the Cleveland-Detroit Express.

They are more likely to cite the 20th Century Limited when asked to name ex-NYC passenger trains.

But those trains are memorialized in this sign from the Cleveland Union Terminal that was saved by the Midwest Railway Preservation Society.

It was photographed in the group’s facility inside a former Baltimore & Ohio roundhouse in Cleveland. It is displayed in public every now and then.

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