Shenandoah (B&O train) Shenandoah (B&O train) The Shenandoah was an American named passenger train of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O), one of four daily B&O trains operating between Jersey City, New Jersey and Grand Central Station in Chicago, Illinois, via Washington, D.C. and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from the 1930s to the 1950s. Other B&O trains of that period on the route were the "Capitol Limited", "Columbian", and the "Washington - Chicago Express". An alternate branch originated in Detroit and met with the Chicago part of the train at Deshler, Ohio, south of Toledo. While the trains were advertised as beginning in New York
Short Line Reading Series voices and well-established guest readers. The Short Line began on January 9, 2007 with a reading by Michael Turner, author of "Hard Core Logo" and organizer of The Reading Railroad, a regular literary event of the mid-1990s, and inspiration for the founders of the Short Line. The Short Line reading series was founded in November 2006 after conversations between Vancouver writer Carmen Papalia and Vancouver poet and musician Andrew Lee. The two drew their inspiration from author Michael Turner’s Reading Railroad series—a similar event of the mid-1990s which featured readings by various, and often conflicting, literary and musical artists. Instead