Lake Cities (train)
''Lake Cities'' was the name of two different passenger trains: * ''Lake Cities'' (Erie Railroad train), operated by the Erie Railroad and its successors 1947-1970 * ''Lake Cities'' (Amtrak train), operated by Amtrak 1980-2004 {{Disambig ...
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Lake Cities (Erie Railroad Train)
The ''Lake Cities'' was a passenger train operated by the Erie Railroad and successor Erie Lackawanna Railway between Chicago and Jersey City, New Jersey and then Hoboken, New Jersey. History The ''Lake Cities'' began in 1939 as the ''Midlander'', a Jersey City to Chicago service with sections to Cleveland, and Buffalo, New York. From its eastern terminus, the Erie's Pavonia Terminal in Jersey City, the route ran through Port Jervis to Binghamton, New York over the traditional Erie main line through Sullivan and Orange County in New York's Southern Tier and on to Chicago. Unlike other New York City to Chicago trains, it bypassed Buffalo to the south, running through Jamestown, Youngstown, Akron, and Marion in Ohio. A few years before the Erie's 1960 merger with the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, the ''Lake Cities'' began running into the Hoboken Terminal in Hoboken. Upon the merger, it was routed over the Lackwanna's Poconos main line route in northern New J ...
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