Rare Amtrak Capitol Limited Cab Ride | Railroad History Lesson

From the archives of the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society, this is "Capitol Limited, Tape 20B" and was originally produced by Waker M. Berko in 1984 for Railroad Video. This tape shows a rare look along the route of Amtrak's Capitol Limited over the former Pennslyvania Railroad mainline between Fort Wayne and Valparaiso, Indiana before Amtrak was rerouted in the early 1990s and Fort Wayne lost passenger rail service.

Tape 20B offers us a unique historical record of the railroad line as it existed during Conrail and before many lineside structures, intersections, and other characteristics were torn down, scrapped, or otherwise removed. What was once a major, multi-track thoroughfare for the Pennsylvania Railroad is now largely a one-track line.

The original multi-tape collection covered the entire route from Chicago to Washington, DC. The collection has been repackaged and is available on DVD from Anchor Videos: https://store.train-video.com/raviprd...

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