New England States
| Overview | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Service type | Inter-city rail | ||||
| Status | Discontinued | ||||
| Locale | Midwest United States/New England | ||||
| First service | June 15, 1938 | ||||
| Last service | December 3, 1967 | ||||
| Successor | Eventually Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited | ||||
| Former operator(s) | New York Central Railroad | ||||
| Route | |||||
| Termini | South Station LaSalle Street Station | ||||
| Distance travelled | 1,018 miles (1,638 km) | ||||
| Average journey time | 19 hours | ||||
| Service frequency | Daily | ||||
| Train number(s) | 27/28 | ||||
| Line(s) used | Water Level Route | ||||
| On-board services | |||||
| Seating arrangements | Reclining seat coaches | ||||
| Sleeping arrangements | Conventional roomettes and double bedrooms; slumbercoach roomettes and double bedrooms (1965) | ||||
| Catering facilities | dining service | ||||
| Observation facilities | Lounge car | ||||
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The New England States was a passenger train operated by the New York Central Railroad and its successor Penn Central over the Water Level Route (predominantly alongside rivers and lake shores) between Chicago and Boston. It was launched in 1938, in tandem with the relaunch of the newly-streamlined 20th Century Limited, and assumed responsibility for that train's Boston sleepers. In 1949 it became the first Chicago–Boston streamliner. The New York Central dropped the name in 1967; an unnamed remnant continued running until 1971. Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited now serves the route.