Capitol Limited (B&O train) years, Amtrak revived Washington–Chicago service using the same B&O tracks (now CSX Transportation) between Washington and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for the Amtrak "Capitol Limited". Capitol Limited (B&O train) The Capitol Limited was an American passenger train run by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, originally between New York City and Grand Central Station in Chicago, Illinois, via Union Station, Washington, D.C., and Pittsburgh. For almost 48 years, it was the B&O's flagship passenger train, noted for personalized service and innovation. At the time of its discontinuation on May 1, 1971, when Amtrak took over most rail passenger service in the U.S., the
Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines 1931, New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) ordered the two companies to join their southern New Jersey lines into one company. The "Consolidation Agreement" decreed that the Pennsylvania Railroad had two-thirds ownership, and the Reading Company had one-third ownership. But the post-war rise of the automobile and the Atlantic City Expressway, built in the 1960s, not only caused people to abandon the railroad for their cars, but also to abandon Atlantic City for more exotic vacation destinations (e.g. Florida). By the late 1960s, the surviving former Camden and Atlantic City Main Line was reduced to a commuter service funded