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The ''Niagara Rainbow'', known as the ''Empire State Express'' before 1976, was a daily passenger train operated by Amtrak between New York and Detroit via Buffalo and the Canadian province of Ontario. Prior to the formation of Amtrak in 1971 the Penn Central's ''Wolverine'' and ''Motor City Special'' had served the route, but Amtrak had truncated the ''Wolverine'' to Detroit and discontinued the ''Motor City Special''. The ''Empire State Express'', as it was then known, made its first run to Detroit on October 31, 1974. Before that it was one of the trains on the Empire Corridor, making a daily run between New York's Grand Central Terminal and Buffalo. The states of New York and Michigan provided the funds to extend the train through to Detroit. A day train, the ''Empire State Express'' carried no sleeping accommodations but did run with a baggage car and diner. At Buffalo, passengers could connect with a Penn Central/Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway/Canadian Pacific Railway service to Toronto. Amtrak changed the name of the train to ''Niagara Rainbow'' on April 25, 1976, although Niagara Falls itself continued to be served by a bus connection. In 1978 several state governments proposed replacing the ''Niagara Rainbow'' and its Chicago—Cleveland—New York counterpart ''Lake Shore Limited'' with a single train with separate sections via Detroit and Cleveland west of Buffalo and separate Boston and New York sections east of Albany. In the end the two trains remained separate. In October 1978 the ''Niagara Rainbow'' finally began stopping in Niagara Falls. Amtrak truncated the ''Niagara Rainbow'' to Niagara Falls on January 31, 1979, after Michigan and New York withdrew their support. The United States Secretary of Transportation, Brock Adams, proposed re-routing the ''Lake Shore Limited'', which ran through Cleveland on the opposite side of Lake Erie, over the Ontario route but this plan was not adopted by Congress. Amtrak also ran an overnight service between New York and Toronto by the name of Niagara Rainbow in the 1990s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Maple Leaf / Niagara Rainbow / Adirondack timetables )〕 == References == 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「Niagara Rainbow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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