Capitol Limited (B&O train) were particularly noted for their Chesapeake Bay cuisine, served in ornate cars with leaded glass windows, glass chandeliers, and colonial-style furnishings. The "Capitol Limited" derived much of its passenger traffic from businessmen and government officials traveling between Washington and the midwest. On September 1, 1926, the Pennsylvania Railroad terminated its contract with the B&O, which had permitted the latter to use the "Pennsy's" Hudson River tunnels and Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan. Thereafter, the "Capitol Limited", along with all other B&O passenger trains to New York, operated over the Jersey Central's main line from the connection with the Reading in Bound
Washingtonian (B&O train) of service, westbound "Washingtonian" Train # 21 operated on the following schedule (principal stops shown in blue, P&LE–Erie "Steel King" denoted in yellow): Washingtonian (B&O train) The Washingtonian was one of two daily American named passenger trains operated by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) during the 1940s–1950s between Baltimore, Maryland and Cleveland, Ohio, via Washington, D. C. and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the last B&O long-haul passenger train to be powered by a steam locomotive from the venerable railroad's namesake city. Inaugurated on April 27, 1941, the "Washingtonian" was primarily a daytime train with a morning departure, in contrast