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Name Trains by Railroad

I grew up in a little community about twenty miles east of St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, the ‘Railroad Capital of Canada.’ I loved to watch the trains on the Wabash Railroad, which ran through there. As I watched the names on the various types of cars on the freight trains, I became familiar with the names of many railroads in Canada and the United States. My train traveling was done between 1945 and 1955. I hope that this will bring back some pleasant memories for those who traveled by train in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s and some transportation history for all.

This list includes trains from North America only. This gives an idea of the number of passenger trains operating in Canada and the United States in 1948. The name trains have been listed according by railroad that they traveled over. In some cases just the Pullman equipment traveled over these lines.

Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe (AT&SF)

  1. Antelope
  2. California Limited
  3. California Special
  4. Cavern
  5. Centennial State
  6. Chicagoan
  7. Chief
  8. El Capitan
  9. El Pasoan
  10. Fast Mail Express
  11. Golden Gate
  12. Grand Canyon
  13. Kansas Cityan
  14. Oil Flyer
  15. Ranger
  16. San Diegan
  17. Scout
  18. Super Chief
  19. Texas Chief
  20. Tulsan
  21. West Texas Express

Atlanta and West Point (A&WP)

  1. Crescent
  2. Piedmont Limited

Atlantic Coast Line (ACL)

  1. Champion (East Coast)
  2. Champion (West Coast)
  3. City of Miami
  4. Dixie Flagler
  5. Dixie Flyer
  6. Dixie Limited
  7. Everglades
  8. Flamingo
  9. Georgian
  10. Havana Special (East Coast)
  11. Havana Special (West Coast)
  12. Miamian
  13. Palmetto
  14. Seminole
  15. South Wind
  16. Southland
  17. Sunchaser

Baltimore and Ohio (B&O)

  1. Ambassador
  2. Capitol Limited
  3. Cincinnatian
  4. Cleveland Night Express
  5. Columbian
  6. Diplomat
  7. Marylander
  8. Metropolitan Special
  9. National
  10. Royal Blue
  11. Shenandoah

Boston and Maine (B&M)

  1. Alouette
  2. Flying Yankee
  3. Green Mountain
  4. Gull
  5. Kennebec
  6. Minute Man
  7. Monadnoch
  8. Montrealer
  9. Mount Royal
  10. Mountaineer
  11. New Englander
  12. Penobscot
  13. Pine Tree
  14. Red Wing
  15. State of Maine
  16. Washingtonian

Canadian National Railways (CNR)

  1. Ambassador
  2. Continental Limited
  3. Gull
  4. Inter-City Limited
  5. International Limited
  6. LaSalle
  7. Maple Leaf
  8. Maritime Express
  9. Montrealer
  10. New Englander
  11. Northland
  12. Ocean Limited
  13. Owl
  14. Scotian
  15. Washingtonian
  16. Winnipeg Limited

Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR)

  1. Alouette
  2. Chicago Express
  3. Chinook
  4. Dominion
  5. Frontenac
  6. Great West
  7. Gull
  8. Kettle Valley Express
  9. Kootenay Express
  10. Laurentian
  11. Michigan
  12. Montreal Limited
  13. Overseas
  14. Red Wing
  15. Royal York
  16. Viger
  17. Winnipeger

Central of Georgia (CG)

  1. City of Miami
  2. Flamingo
  3. Nancy Hanks
  4. Seminole
  5. Southland
  6. Sunchaser

Central Vermont (CV)

  1. Ambassador
  2. Montrealer
  3. New Englander
  4. Vermonter
  5. Washingtonian

Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O)

  1. F. F. V.
  2. George Washington
  3. Resort Special
  4. Sportsman

Chicago and Eastern Illinois (C&EI)

  1. Cardinal
  2. Dixie Flagler
  3. Dixie Flyer
  4. Dixie Limited
  5. Dixie Mail
  6. Georgian
  7. Meadowlark
  8. Silent Knight

Chicago and Northwestern (C&NW)

  1. Arrowhead Limited
  2. Ashland Limited
  3. Ashland Mail
  4. Capitol 400
  5. Chicago Limited
  6. City of Denver
  7. City of Los Angeles
  8. City of Milwaukee 400
  9. City of Portland
  10. City of San Francisco
  11. Columbine
  12. Commuter 400
  13. Duluth-Superior Limited
  14. Flambeau 400
  15. Gold Coast
  16. Los Angeles Challenger
  17. Green Bay 400
  18. Kate Shelly 400
  19. Los Angeles Limited
  20. Minnesota 400
  21. Mondamin
  22. Nightingale
  23. North American
  24. Northwestern Limited
  25. Pacific
  26. Peninsula 400
  27. San Francisco Challenger
  28. San Francisco Overland
  29. Shoreline 400
  30. Twin Cities 400
  31. Utahn
  32. Valley 400
  33. Victory
  34. Viking

Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy (Burlington Route) (CB&Q)

  1. Ak-Sar-Ben
  2. Alaskan
  3. American Royal
  4. Black Hawk
  5. California Zephyr
  6. Denver Zephyr
  7. Empire Builder
  8. Exposition Flyer
  9. Mainstreeter
  10. Mark Twain Zephyr
  11. Nebraska Zephyr
  12. North Coast Limited
  13. Oriental Limited
  14. Sam Houston Zephyr
  15. Silver Streak Zephyr
  16. Texas Zephyr
  17. Twin Cities Zephyr (am, pm)
  18. Western Star
  19. Zephyr Rocket

Chicago Great Western (CGW)

  1. Mill Cities Limited
  2. Minnesotan
  3. Nebraska Limited
  4. Omaha Express

Chicago, Indianapolis, and Louisville (Monon) (CI&L)

  1. Bluegrass
  2. Thoroughbred
  3. Tippecanoe

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific (Milwaukee Road) (CMSP&P)

  1. Afternoon Hiawatha
  2. Chippewa
  3. Olympian Hiawatha
  4. Morning Hiawatha
  5. Pioneer Limited
  6. Southwest Limited

Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific (Rock Island) (CRI&P)

  1. Choctaw Express
  2. Corn Belt Rocket
  3. Des Moines-Chicago Rocket
  4. Des Moines-Omaha Limited
  5. Golden State
  6. Hot Springs Limited
  7. Imperial
  8. LaSalle St. Limited
  9. Mid-Continental Special
  10. Peoria-Chicago Express
  11. Rocky Mountain Rocket
  12. Short Line Express
  13. Southwest Express
  14. Texas Rocket
  15. Twin Star Rocket
  16. Zephyr Rocket

Delaware and Hudson (D&H)

  1. Laurentian
  2. Montreal Limited
  3. Mountain Express

Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western (Lackawanna) (DL&W)

  1. Chicagoan
  2. Keystone Express
  3. Lackawanna Limited
  4. Merchants Express
  5. New York Mail
  6. New Yorker
  7. Nickel Plate Limited
  8. Owl
  9. Phoebe Snow
  10. Pittsburgh Express
  11. Pocono Express
  12. Westerner

Denver and Rio Grande Western (Rio Grande) (D&RGW)

  1. California Zephyr
  2. Colorado Eagle
  3. Exposition Flyer
  4. Mountaineer
  5. Prospector
  6. Royal Gorge
  7. Yampa Valley Mail

Dominion Atlantic (DA)

  1. Gull

Erie (Erie)

  1. Atlantic Express
  2. Erie Limited
  3. Lake Cities
  4. Mountain Express
  5. Pacific Express
  6. Southern Tier Express

Florida East Coast (FEC)

  1. Champion (East Coast)
  2. City of Miami
  3. Dixie Flagler
  4. Dixie Flyer
  5. Dixie Limited
  6. Everglades
  7. Flamingo
  8. Florida Special
  9. Georgian
  10. Havana Special (East Coast)
  11. Kansas City
  12. Florida Special
  13. Memphian
  14. Miamian
  15. Palmland
  16. South Wind
  17. Southland
  18. Sunchaser

Grand Trunk Western (GTW)

  1. Inter-City Limited
  2. International Limited
  3. New York Express
  4. LaSalle

Great Northern (GN)

  1. Badger
  2. Cascadean
  3. Empire Builder
  4. Fast Mail
  5. Gopher
  6. Oriental Limited
  7. Pacific Coast Express
  8. Red River
  9. Western Star
  10. Winnipeg Limited

Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe (GC&SF)

  1. California Special
  2. Ranger
  3. Texas Chief

Gulf, Mobile, and Ohio (GM&O)

  1. Abraham Lincoln
  2. Alton Limited
  3. Ann Rutledge
  4. Gulf Coast Rebel
  5. Mail
  6. Midnight Special
  7. Night Hawk
  8. Prairie State Express





Illinois Central (IC)

  1. Chickasaw
  2. City of Miami
  3. City of New Orleans
  4. Daylight
  5. Green Diamond
  6. Hawkeye
  7. Illini
  8. Iowan
  9. Land O’Corn
  10. Louisiane
  11. Miss Lou
  12. Night Diamond
  13. Northern Express
  14. Northwestern Limited
  15. Panama Limited
  16. Planter
  17. Seminole
  18. Southern Express
  19. Southwestern Limited
  20. Sunchaser

Kansas City Southern (KCS)

  1. Flying Crow
  2. Shreveporter
  3. Southern Belle

Lehigh Valley (LV)

  1. Asa Packer
  2. Black Diamond
  3. John Wilkes
  4. Major
  5. New York Express
  6. Star

Louisville and Nashville (L&N)

  1. Azalean
  2. Dixie Flagler
  3. Dixie Flyer
  4. Dixie Limited
  5. Flamingo
  6. Georgian
  7. Hummingbird
  8. Pan-American
  9. Piedmont Limited
  10. South Wind
  11. Southland

Maine Central (MC)

  1. Gull

Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway (M&SL)

  1. Day Express
  2. Night Express

Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Sault Ste. Marie (Soo Line) (MSP&SSM)

  1. Laker
  2. Soo Dominion
  3. Winnipeger

Missouri-Kansas-Texas (Katy) (MKT)

  1. Bluebonnet
  2. Katy Flyer
  3. Katy Limited
  4. Sooner
  5. Texas Special

Missouri-Pacific (MP)

  1. Colorado Eagle
  2. Houstonian
  3. Louisiana Sunshine Special
  4. Missouri River Eagle
  5. Missourian
  6. Orleanean
  7. Ozarkan
  8. Pioneer
  9. Rainbow Special
  10. Royal Gorge
  11. Southerner
  12. Star
  13. Sunshine Special
  14. Texan
  15. Texas Eagle

Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis (NC&SL)

  1. Dixie Flagler
  2. Dixie Flyer
  3. Dixie Limited
  4. Georgian

National Railways of Mexico (NRM)

  1. Sunshine Special

New York Central (NYC)

  1. Berkshire
  2. Booth Tarkington
  3. Buffalo-Pittsburgh Express
  4. Canadian
  5. Chicago Express
  6. Chicago Mercury
  7. Chicagoan
  8. Cincinnati Special
  9. Cleveland Limited
  10. Cleveland Mercury
  11. Cleveland-Columbus Special
  12. Columbus-Cleveland Special
  13. Commodore Vanderbilt
  14. Detroiter
  15. DeWitt Clinton
  16. Easterner
  17. Empire State Express
  18. Fifth Avennue Special
  19. Forest City
  20. Gateway
  21. Great Lakes
  22. Hendrick Hudson
  23. Interstate Express
  24. Iroquois
  25. James Whitcomb Riley
  26. Knickerbocker
  27. Laurentian
  28. Michigan
  29. Michigan Special
  30. Midnight Special
  31. Midwestern
  32. Minute Man
  33. Missourian
  34. Mohawk
  35. Montreal Limited
  36. Motor City Special
  37. Mountain Express
  38. New England States
  39. New York Special
  40. Niagara
  41. North Shore Limited
  42. North Star
  43. Northerner
  44. Ohio Special
  45. Ohio State Limited
  46. Ontarion
  47. Overseas
  48. Pacemaker
  49. Pittsburgh-Buffalo Express
  50. Royal York
  51. South Shore
  52. Southwestern State Special
  53. Sycamore
  54. Texas Special
  55. Tuscarora
  56. Twentieth Century Limited
  57. Twilight Limited
  58. Wolverine

New York, Chicago, and St. Louis (Nickel Plate Road) (NYC&SL)

  1. Chicagoan
  2. New York Mail
  3. New Yorker
  4. Nickel Plate Limited
  5. Westerner

New York, New Haven, and Hartford (New Haven) (NH)

  1. Bankers
  2. Champion
  3. Colonial
  4. Cotton Blossom
  5. Everglades
  6. Federal
  7. Havana Special
  8. Merchants Limited
  9. Miamian
  10. Montrealer
  11. Palmetto
  12. Palmland
  13. Patriot
  14. Peach Queen
  15. Pilgrim
  16. Quaker
  17. Senator
  18. Silver Meteor
  19. Silver Star
  20. Sunland
  21. Valley Express
  22. William Penn
  23. Washingtonian

Norfolk and Western (N&W)

  1. Birmingham Special
  2. Cannon Ball
  3. Cavalier
  4. Chicago Daylight Express
  5. Chicago Night Express
  6. Cincinnati Daylight Express
  7. Cincinnati Night Express
  8. Pelican
  9. Pocahantas
  10. Powhatan Arrow
  11. Southerner
  12. Tennessean
  13. Union

Northern Pacific (NP)

  1. Alaskan
  2. Mainstreeter
  3. North Coast Limited
  4. St. Paul-Winnipeg

Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)

  1. Admiral
  2. American
  3. Azalean
  4. Birmingham Special
  5. Broadway Limited
  6. Cannon Ball
  7. Champion
  8. Chicago Arrow
  9. Chicago Daylight Express
  10. Chicago Night Express
  11. Cincinnati Daylight Express
  12. Cincinnati Limited
  13. Cincinnati Night Express
  14. Clevelander
  15. Colonial
  16. Congressional
  17. Cotton Blossom
  18. Crescent
  19. Detroit Arrow
  20. Duquesne
  21. Everglades
  22. F. F. V.
  23. Federal
  24. Fort Pitt
  25. General
  26. George Washington
  27. Golden Triangle
  28. Gotham Limited
  29. Havana Special
  30. Hummingbird
  31. Iron City Express
  32. Jeffersonian
  33. Juanita
  34. Keystone Express
  35. Liberty Limited
  36. Mail
  37. Manhattan Limited
  38. Miamian
  39. Mid-City Express
  40. Montrealer
  41. Northern Arrow
  42. Palmetto
  43. Palmland
  44. Pan American
  45. Patriot
  46. Peach Queen
  47. Pelican
  48. Pennsylvania Limited
  49. Pennsylvanian
  50. Philadelphia Express
  51. Philadelphia Night Express
  52. Piedmont Limited
  53. Pilgrim
  54. Pittsburgh Express
  55. Pittsburgher
  56. Quaker
  57. Rainbow
  58. Red Arrow
  59. Red Bird
  60. Senator
  61. Silver Comet
  62. Silver Meteor
  63. Silver Star
  64. South Wind
  65. Southerner
  66. Southland
  67. Spirit of St. Louis
  68. Sportsman
  69. St. Louisan
  70. Sunland
  71. Tennessean
  72. Texas Eagle
  73. Texas Special
  74. Trailblazer
  75. Union
  76. Valley Special
  77. Washingtonian
  78. William Penn

Pittsburgh and Lake Erie (P&LE)

  1. Buffalo-Pittsburgh Express
  2. Pittsburgh-Buffalo Express
  3. Washingtonian

Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac (RF&P)

  1. Cannon Ball
  2. Champion
  3. Cotton Blossom
  4. Everglades
  5. Havana Special
  6. Miamian
  7. Palmetto
  8. Palmland
  9. Silver Comet
  10. Silver Meteor
  11. Silver Star
  12. Sunland

St. Louis-San Francisco (Frisco) (SLSF)

  1. Firefly
  2. Florida Special
  3. Kansas City-Florida Special
  4. Lone Star
  5. Memphian
  6. Meteor
  7. Morning Star
  8. Oklahoman
  9. Sunnyland
  10. Texas Special
  11. Will Rogers

St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) (SLSW)

  1. Lone Star
  2. Morning Star

Seaboard Air Line (SAL)

  1. Cotton Blossom
  2. Orange Blossom Special
  3. Palmland
  4. Silver Comet
  5. Silver Meteor
  6. Silver Star
  7. Sunland

Southern Pacific (SP)

  1. Acadian
  2. Alamo
  3. Argonaut
  4. Beaver
  5. Border Limited
  6. Cascade
  7. City of San Francisco
  8. Coaster
  9. Del Monte
  10. Gold Coast
  11. Golden State
  12. Hustler
  13. Imperial
  14. Klamath
  15. Lark
  16. Mail
  17. Morning Daylight
  18. Noon Daylight
  19. Oakland Lark
  20. Owl (2)
  21. Passenger (2)
  22. Rouge River
  23. San Francisco Challenger
  24. San Francisco Overland
  25. Sunbeam
  26. Sunset Limited
  27. West Coast

Southern Railway (SR)

  1. Aiken-Augusta Special
  2. Asheville Special
  3. Birmingham Special
  4. Carolina Special
  5. Crescent
  6. Florida Special
  7. Peach Queen
  8. Pelican
  9. Piedmont Limited
  10. Ponce de Leon
  11. Royal Palm
  12. Southerner
  13. Sunnyland
  14. Tennessean

Toronto, Hamilton, and Buffalo (TH&B)

  1. Ontarion

Union Pacific (UP)

  1. Butte Special
  2. City of Denver
  3. City of Los Angeles
  4. City of Portland
  5. City of St. Louis
  6. City of San Francisco
  7. Columbine
  8. Gold Coast
  9. Idahoan
  10. Los Angeles Challenger
  11. Los Angeles Limited
  12. Northwest Special
  13. Pacific
  14. Pony Express
  15. Portland Rose
  16. San Francisco Challenger
  17. San Francisco Overland
  18. Spokane
  19. Utahn
  20. Yellowstone Special

Wabash Railroad (WAB)

  1. Banner Blue
  2. Blue Bird
  3. City of Kansas City
  4. City of St. Louis
  5. Detroit Limited
  6. Midnight Special
  7. Omaha Limited
  8. Red Bird
  9. St. Louis Limited (2)
  10. Wabash Cannon Ball

Western Pacific (WP)

  1. California Zephyr
  2. Exposition Flyer
  3. Royal Gorge

Western Railway of Alabama (WRA)

  1. Piedmont Limited




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