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The ''Capitol Limited'' is one of two Amtrak trains connecting Washington, D.C., to Chicago, running via Pittsburgh and Cleveland (the other is the ''Cardinal'' via Cincinnati and Indianapolis). Service began in 1981 and was named after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's ''Capitol Limited'' which ended in 1971 upon the formation of Amtrak. It carries the Amtrak train numbers 29 and 30, which were previously assigned to the discontinued ''National Limited''. During fiscal year 2011, the ''Capitol Limited'' carried over 225,000 passengers, a 3.5% increase over FY2010. The train had a total revenue of $20,312,544 in FY2011, a 9.3% increase from FY2010.〔 == History == On October 1, 1981, Amtrak inaugurated its ''Capitol Limited''. It ran over the same route as the B&O's train east of Pittsburgh, but west of Pittsburgh it ran combined with the Chicago-New York ''Broadway Limited'' over the former Pennsylvania Railroad's Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway. Its numbers, 440 (eastbound) and 441 (westbound), were derived from the ''Broadway Limited's'' 40 and 41 and the new train also used Heritage Fleet equipment. The new train replaced the ''Broadway Limiteds former Washington section which had diverged at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.〔; 109.〕 In late 1984, the ''Capitol Limited'' re-equipped with new Amfleet II coaches but also lost its full diner east of Pittsburgh. Beginning with the October 26, 1986, timetable, Amtrak split up the ''Capitol Limited'' and ''Broadway Limited''. The former received new numbers, 29 and 30 (which formerly belonged to the defunct ''National Limited''), and a later schedule. The ''Capitol Limited'' continued to operate over the same route. With the change the ''Capitol Limited'' regained a full diner east of Pittsburgh, which it had lost in 1984.〔 On November 12, 1990, trains were rerouted west of Alliance, Ohio, due to Conrail's desire to abandon part of the former PFW&C in northwestern Indiana; the ''Capitol Limited'' now uses the former Pennsylvania Railroad Cleveland and Pittsburgh (C&P) line north from Alliance through Hudson, Ohio, to Cleveland route. The ''Broadway Limited'' and its successor, the ''Three Rivers'', were re-routed over the B&O's Chicago-Pittsburgh route.〔 In October 1994, Amtrak, with great fanfare, relaunched the ''Capitol Limited'' with a new bilevel Superliner II consist. On February 16, 1996, an eastbound rush-hour MARC commuter train headed to Washington Union Station collided with the westbound ''Capitol Limited'' near Georgetown Junction on a snow-covered stretch of track just west of Silver Spring, Maryland. Eleven people died aboard the MARC train in the accident. Three died of injuries suffered in the impact; the rest were killed by smoke and flames. The MARC engineer and two conductors were among the dead. In November 2014, Amtrak, in the face of extreme delays, filed a complaint with the Surface Transportation Board, against CSX and Norfolk Southern, due to the frequency of extreme delays caused by freight train interference. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Capitol Limited (Amtrak train)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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