The ''Cincinnati Limited'' was a named train of the Pennsylvania Railroad; the train traveled from

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Pennsylvania Station Pennsylvania Station (often abbreviated Penn Station) is a name applied by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) to several of its grand passenger terminals. Several are still in active use by Amtrak and other transportation services; others have been ...

to the

Cincinnati Union Terminal Cincinnati Union Terminal is an intercity train station and museum center in the Queensgate neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. Commonly abbreviated as CUT, or by its Amtrak station code, CIN, the terminal is served by Amtrak's ''Cardinal'' line ...

. It was a rival to New York Central's ''

Ohio State Limited The ''Ohio State Limited'' was a named passenger train operated by the New York Central Railroad (NYC) between New York City and Cincinnati, Ohio, via Buffalo and Cleveland, Ohio. Service began in 1924 and continued until 1967, with some vestig ...

''. The ''Cincinnati Limited'' carried connecting sleeping cars to the Louisville and Nashville Railroad's

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New Orleans New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans

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''. By the mid-1950s, the sleeper extension on L&N lines ended at Memphis instead of New Orleans. The train was sustained into the era of the

Penn Central The Penn Central Transportation Company, commonly abbreviated to Penn Central, was an American class I railroad that operated from 1968 to 1976. Penn Central combined three traditional corporate rivals (the Pennsylvania, New York Central and the ...

, the successor of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Both the ''Cincinnati Limited'' and the ''Pan American'' ended service on April 30, 1971, as passenger trains moved over to

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Stations west of Harrisburg

The train ran at limited stations from Pittsburgh to Columbus, in comparison to the PRR's ''

Penn Texas The ''Penn Texas'' was a named passenger train of the Pennsylvania Railroad that ran from New York City's Pennsylvania Station to St. Louis' Union Station from 1948 to 1970. The train also had a branch from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to Washingto ...

'' which bypassed most of them.''Pennsylvania Railroad timetable, January 18, 1954, Tables 4, 36, 37 http://streamlinermemories.info/PRR/PRR54-1TT.pdf * Lewistown station (westbound only) * Altoona station * Pittsburgh Union Station *Steubenville (eastbound only) * Columbus Union Station *Xenia (westbound only) *Norwood *Winton Place *

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