Empire State Express
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The Empire State Express was one of the named passenger trains and onetime flagship of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad. On September 14, 1891, it covered the 436 miles (702 kilometers) between New York City and Buffalo in 7 hours and 6 minutes, averaging 61.4 miles-per-hour (98.8 km/h), with a top speed of 82 mph (132 km/h).
RPO canceled cover from the first streamlined run of "The Empire State Express".
New York Central and Hudson River Railroad No. 999, the "Queen of Speed," slows to 60 mph (97 km/h) as it leads the Empire State Express through Palatine, New York in 1905.
The Budd-manufactured cars in a 1944 Saturday Evening Post ad.
No. 999 preserved on static display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, photo from 2003.
New York Central Railroad
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The New York Central Railroad was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The railroad primarily connected greater New York and Boston in the east with Chicago and St. Louis in the Midwest, along with the intermediate cities of Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Rochester and Syracuse. New York Central was headquartered in New York City's New York Central Building, adjacent to its largest station, Grand Central Terminal.
The main concourse of Grand Central Terminal in New York City
The former headquarters of the New York Central Railroad on Park Avenue, known today as the Helmsley Building
Bond of the New York Central Railroad Company, issued August 1, 1853 and signed by Erastus Corning
A New York Central Railroad train on the High Line through the Bell Laboratories Building in 1936