Talk:Federal Express (train)

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Historical note[edit]

I believe the first paragraph is confused.

I don't know when the Federal Express began but I suspect it was about 1889 when The New Haven Rail Road built a bridge was built across the Thames River in New London. The train continued to Mott Haven (beyond Stamford) and was put on a ferry to Jersey City and (I think) ran over the B & O road to the Pennsylvania and then on to Washington.

On January 17, 1915 the New York Times ran a story about the rerouting the Federal Express. From Devon (south of Bridgeport) the train went west to the Poughkeepsie bridge, then South on the Lehigh and Hudson and also the Belvidere and Delaware to Trenton and then rejoined the Pennsylvania main line.

In 1917 the Hell Gate Bridge opened and, for the first time, the New Haven had direct acces to Pennsylvania Station. The train continued as long as the Pennsylvania railroad continued (including the Penn Central).00:31, 8 March 2008 (UTC)John Rydberg

The overnight train is in a June 1893 timetable although it is called the Boston and Southern Express. The daylight train is also shown and was already called the Colonial Express. The route up to November 1910 used the New Haven's Harlem River Branch from New Rochelle to its Harlem River terminal, the Pennsylvania's steamship "Maryland" down the East River, and the Pennsylvania's dock at Harsimus Cove, a few blocks north of its Jersey City terminal. Definitely no B&O involvement! Service on both trains ended when Penn Station New York opened.JoeBrennan (talk) 13:55, 11 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I finally had time to rewrite this section. The train started way back in 1876 as one of the many new services inspired by the Centennial fair in Philadelphia. The ship used had previously carried the PRR across the Susqehanna River, thus the name Maryland, although then for tradition's sake its replacement (1889) was also called Maryland. I could not pin down exactly when the name Federal came into use, but it's between 1893 and 1903. On the bridge routing, I cut out old railroad names in Connecticut because by 1912 they were all NYNH&H and the route had been extensively rebuilt into the Maybrook Line. I left the CNE since that name was still in use. I think the bridge route was intended to be temporary from the beginning but did not find a source for it. Certainly the Hell Gate route was part of the Penn Station plan from before Penn Station opened.JoeBrennan (talk) 20:43, 18 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Station evacuation[edit]

The evacuation of Union Station in the 1953 wreck is not supported by the more detailed article about that wreck. Only the stationmaster's office was evacuated, and that on very short notice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.53.195.38 (talk) 18:31, 15 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Federal Express stations[edit]

What stations served by New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Federal Express?