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 between New York Ci
RPO canceled cover from the first streamlined run of "The Empire State Express".
The New York Central's Empire State Express around the turn of the century
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.
Galaxy Express 999
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Galaxy Express 999 is a Japanese manga series. It is written and illustrated by Leiji Matsumoto, later adapted into a number of anime films and television series. It is set in a spacefaring, high-tech
Empire State Express
…recorded "Empire State Express" at the New York Folk Festival: No. 999 was the inspiration for the eponymous steam engined-shaped space vehicle in the Galaxy Express 999 series of manga and animated films. The 2007 Lyle Lovett song "This Traveling Around" includes the verse…
Cover of the 1994 reprint of the first manga volume