Forgotten Railway Stories Ep 7 - Amtrak's Last Mail-Hauling Train - The Three Rivers

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Welcome back to the Forgotten Railway Stories! This series will cover the stories of forgotten train stations, rolling stock, locomotives, and derailments that no one knows of!
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Episode 7 is about ANOTHER fallen Amtrak train! This one is really unique because it was Amtrak's last hurrah for mail and express freight. This train increasingly lost more and more money and riders due to mail and express putting pressure on the US Postal Companies, BUT... it's technically still running today as Amtrak's "Pennsylvanian" route! Though Mail and Express Freight by rail is long gone, you can still have your mail delivered by truck. During the mid 20th century, it was the biggest source of revenue for the railways of North America. Nowadays, you can ride the Amtrak Pennsylvanian to remember the Three Rivers route - a failed mail and passenger train that went along the Northeast Corridor and through the Rust Belt to Chicago. Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to... Amtrak's Last Mail-Hauling Train - The Three Rivers!
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:26 How It All Began
1:41 What Was The "Three Rivers" Service?
3:39 The Complex Route
4:34 Mail & Express Freight
6:30 Discontinuance
7:28 Meanwhile...
8:07 Amtrak's Pennsylvanian
9:23 The Present Day
9:45 Conclusion
10:12 Final Thoughts
10:27 Thanks For Watching!
Sources / Credits:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadwa...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsyl...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_R...)
railfanning.org/2004/10/amtra....
www.amtraktrains.com/threads/...
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• Amtrak Broadway Limite...
• Amtrak Three Rivers wi...
• AMTRAK MAIL EXPRESS TR...
• Amtrak's "Freight Trai...
• September 4 2004 Amtra...
• Amtrak Three Rivers in...
• Amtrak Three Rivers an...
• 30+ car Amtrak in 2000...
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[@J-Bahn]

I've always had a soft spot for this train because I have family friends that live in Northwest Ohio and we would always drive out every summer (10 hours). I would always ask if we could take the train but we never did. The Fostoria station was actually pretty close to their house, so this train was still running it might have actually made sense to take the train. God we need some sort of direct service or through coaches on the Pennsy mainline route to Chicago.

[@nigelsrailadventures5647]

It was great working with you on this video! I’ll definitely have you on at some point!

[@njtrailfan4106]

Awesome video

[@coreymcdonough8289]

I loved catching this train. I’d walk down to Strafford station back when I was in high school….24…years...ago...oh no (millennial existential crisis intensifies)... Anyway it was fun to see a large passenger/freight train on a line that mostly saw septa silverliners. It's nice that we still have the Pennsylvanian, and it's fun to try and catch the east/west meet near Strasburg, but it's just not the same as The Three Rivers. I definitely miss it.

[@dominictherailfan]

Nice, but for your next episode can you do the amtraks cape codder?

[@45Steamer]

Amtrak is planning to launch a new Chicago to Pittsburgh route, via Fort Wayne, IN & Columbus, OH. Who knows maybe Amtrak will launch a NY to Chicago train via that route, along with rerouting the Capitol Limited on that route.

[@discodave4190]

Amtrak is *planning* no such thing. There is a planning study for a new passenger rail service from Chicago to Pittsburgh via Fort Wayne and Columbus. However, it is just a planning study for now. The City of Fort Wayne is the lead agency for this study. It is just a STUDY for now. Amtrak provided a letter of support for the grant application to fund the study. As of now, Amtrak has not commited to operating this new route.