AMTRAK OPERATIONS on Conrail consisted of the following trains/routes: Nos.48 and 49 The Lakeshore Limited Poughkeepsie
to Chicago (Poughkeepsie to New York Penn was on Metro North and Amtrak's own trackage), Nos.448 and 449, Boston-Albany section
of the Lakeshore Limited. Trains 40 and 41, The Broadway Limited operated between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh on Conrail, thence
B&O from Pittsburgh to Chicago in its final years. The Capitol Limited operated over Conrail from Pittsburgh to Chicago
via Cleveland,Toledo, Elkhart, its present route. Trains 43 and 44 The Pennsylvanian, operated over Conrail between Pittsburgh
and Harrisburg. Other Amtrak service on Conrail included the Michigan service trains, except the Pere Marquette which was
and is over ex C&O trackage. These trains included The Wolverine, The Twilight, The Lake Cities, and the International
between Chicago and Battle Creek, at which the train entered and left Grand Trunk Western trackage. Prior to 1983, the commuter
operations operated by Conrail for local authorities consisted of the following services:
A. Erie Lackawanna
1.Main Line/Bergen County Line
2.Pascack Valley Line
3.Boonton Line
4.Morris and Essex Lines
B.Central Railroad of New Jersey
1.Newark to Raritan and Phillipsburg
2.Bayonne to Cranford
3.Half the service on the New York and Long Branch RR.
C.Penn Central Transportation Company
1.New York to Poughkeepsie
2.New York to Brewster and Dover Plains
3.New York to New Haven,Danbury,Waterbury, and Canaan
4.Boston to Providence
5.Boston to Readville
6.Boston to Stoughton
7.Boston toFramingham
8.Boston to Franklin
9.Boston to Needham
PHILADELPHIA AREA
Penn Central Lines out of 30th Street Station
1.West Chester
2.Manyunk
3.Paoli
4.Levittown-Tullytown
5.Chestnut Hill (west)
6.Elwyn-Media
7.Wilmington,DE
Reading Lines out of Reading Terminal
1.Lansdale
2.Hatboro
3.West Trenton
4.Bethlehem
5.Reading and Pottsville
6.Chestnut Hill
7.Norristown
8.Newtown/Fox Chase
9.Doylestown
Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines out of Lindenwold
1.Lindenwold-Atlantic City
2.Lindenwold- Cape May.
Chicago-Gary Valparaiso
These services were covered by approximately 3 dozen timetables, a few of which may have brought the number of issues
of each form to some 250 timetables a crack.This variety of color and timetable forms made for an attractive and inexpensive
way to start a collection
