Ithaca
Journal, Nov. 5, 1901
NEW FAST TRAINS.
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Ithaca To Be Given
Excellent Service By Lehigh valley
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Number Six, Seven and Eight, Three of the Speediest and Most
Elegantly Equipped Passenger Trains to be run Through This City - Schedule
Operative in November.
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Three of the fastest and most elegantly equipped trains on the
Lehigh Valley system, upon the adoption of the new winter schedule about
November 10, will be run through Ithaca, over the Ithaca branch, or the
"Old Road" as it is called. The positive announcement was made
today to The Journal by Paul S. Millspaugh, district passenger agent, who
attended a meeting of officials held in Buffalo yesterday.
The trains are No. 6, the Exposition Express, No. 7, the New
York and Chicago Day Express, and No. 8, the New York and Chicago Limited, all
now running over the main line between Geneva and Sayre, and excluding the
Black Diamond Express, the best on the road.
Number 6, a solid vestibule train running between Buffalo,
Philadelphia and New York, now leaves Buffalo at 8 P.M., arriving in
Philadelphia at 6:50 A.M., and New York at seven in the morning. The train
carries six sleepers
and is a fast limited express with coaches for Baltimore and Washington. The only
stop made between Buffalo and Geneva is at Rochester Junction. It will arrive
here about 11 o'clock at night, stopping at this station only, on the Ithaca
Branch.
Number 8, the second eastbound train is a solid vestibule
train from Chicago and Detroit, over the Grand Trunk, and does not enter
Buffalo, coming around Depew Junction. It carries a parlor-car, dining-cars and
sleepers and will arrive in Ithaca at 8 o'clock A.M., making the same stops as
Number 6. The train will arrive in New York at four o'clock in the afternoon.
Number 7, the third train, which the company has decided to
run through this city, leaves New York at 10 o'clock A.M., and arrives in
Buffalo at 9:15 P.M. Under the new schedule the train will reach Ithaca at six
o'clock,
and will stop only at Geneva and Rochester Junction between here and Buffalo.
Through coaches for Chicago and Detroit are carried.
Besides the announcement of the new service it is also
stated officially, that the present trains with the exception of the one put on
for Pan-American visitors and arriving here ar 1:25 A.M., will be continued.
This will give Ithacans four trains to Buffalo. No. 1 now leaving here at 5 o'clock
in the afternoon will depart about two hours later, after No. 7, to do the
local business and will make the usual stops. The changes in the time
of the other trains have not yet been decided.
This is the first time since the construction of the new
route between Geneva and VanEtten, opened in 1891 to avoid the Tompkins County
hills, that Ithaca has been afforded such excellent train service. For the past
several
years, influence has been brought to bear on the Lehigh authorities to operate
the fast trains over this division but owing to the great extra expense and
loss of time, the company would never consent to the idea.
Thirty minutes more in time is required to make the run over
the Old Road, besides the necessity of keeping two extra engines and crews here
to assist the trains up the steep grades. It is for the sole benefit of Ithaca and
students, and the fact that Ithaca is one of the best stations on the road,
that the company has arranged the new schedule.
Ithaca
Journal-News, Friday, Dec. 24, 1926
Lehigh "Star" Name of New Fast Train
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Will Leave New York at 11:45 P.M., Arriving in Ithaca at 7:41 A.M.,
Offers Exceptional Service En Route - Starts Jan. 3
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A new train service between New York City, Ithaca, Rochester
and Buffalo was announced today by local officials of the Lehigh Valley
Railroad. It will e effective Monday, January 3. The new train will be known as
"The Star" and will operate nightly from the metropolis.
Leaving the Pennsylvania station in New York City at 11:45
o'clock each night the train is expected to be of great advantage to patrons
remaining in the city for the theater. The train will make fast time enroute,
being
scheduled to arrive in Ithaca at 7:41 A.M. The new train will consist of Pullman
cars accessible at 10 o'clock.
Another feature of the new train will be the record run
between Ithaca and Buffalo, leaving here at 7:45 o'clock, and being scheduled
to arrive in Rochester at 9:55 o'clock and Buffalo at 10:45 o'clock. A
breakfast car will
be attached to the train.
A good connection may also be made at Bethlehem, Pa. with
trains from Baltimore, Md., Washington and Philadelphia. The connecting train
will leave Philadelphia at 12:05 A.M. nightly.
It was also announced that the Lehigh Limited would continue
to operate the usual train in addition to the new train, and leave New York
City at 9:10 o'clock, arriving in Ithaca at 5 a.m. Ithaca Journal-News, Friday,
Dec. 24, 1926