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- Metropolitan_Special abstract "The Metropolitan Special was the workhorse passenger train of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) during the 1920s–1960s between St. Louis, Missouri and Jersey City, New Jersey, where at Communipaw Terminal passengers transferred to buses and ferries to Manhattan in New York City. Major station stops included Washington, D.C., and Cincinnati, Ohio. The Metropolitan Special carried vast amounts of mail and express packages in many (often 10+) baggage cars and express cars, and the train served various smaller towns and villages that were bypassed by the more prestigious trains along the route, the National Limited and the Diplomat. Added revenue for the train came from Railway Post Office cars, which sorted and canceled mail en route, between terminals.Even with declining passenger revenue through the 1950s and 1960s, the B&O Passenger Department relied heavily on trains such as the Metropolitan Special because of the revenue generated by moving mail and express packages. However, in 1967, the United States Postal Service dealt a heavy blow to the B&O, canceling most of its lucrative post office contracts. With such a drop in revenue, the fate of the Metropolitan Special was sealed. This train was gone before the first day of Amtrak, May 1, 1971.".
- Metropolitan_Special thumbnail B&O_Metropolitan_Special_route.png?width=300.
- Metropolitan_Special wikiPageID "11278489".
- Metropolitan_Special wikiPageLength "2129".
- Metropolitan_Special wikiPageOutDegree "18".
- Metropolitan_Special wikiPageRevisionID "597841838".
- Metropolitan_Special wikiPageWikiLink Amtrak.
- Metropolitan_Special wikiPageWikiLink Baltimore_and_Ohio_Railroad.
- Metropolitan_Special wikiPageWikiLink Category:Named_passenger_trains_of_the_United_States.
- Metropolitan_Special wikiPageWikiLink Category:Passenger_rail_transportation_in_West_Virginia.
- Metropolitan_Special wikiPageWikiLink Category:Passenger_trains_of_the_Baltimore_and_Ohio_Railroad.
- Metropolitan_Special wikiPageWikiLink Central_Railroad_of_New_Jersey_Terminal.
- Metropolitan_Special wikiPageWikiLink Cincinnati.
- Metropolitan_Special wikiPageWikiLink Cincinnati,_Ohio.
- Metropolitan_Special wikiPageWikiLink Communipaw_Terminal.
- Metropolitan_Special wikiPageWikiLink Diplomat_(train).
- Metropolitan_Special wikiPageWikiLink Jersey_City,_New_Jersey.
- Metropolitan_Special wikiPageWikiLink List_of_ferries_across_the_Hudson_River_to_New_York_City.
- Metropolitan_Special wikiPageWikiLink Manhattan.
- Metropolitan_Special wikiPageWikiLink National_Limited.
- Metropolitan_Special wikiPageWikiLink New_York_City.
- Metropolitan_Special wikiPageWikiLink Railway_Post_Office.
- Metropolitan_Special wikiPageWikiLink Railway_post_office.
- Metropolitan_Special wikiPageWikiLink St._Louis.
- Metropolitan_Special wikiPageWikiLink St._Louis,_Missouri.
- Metropolitan_Special wikiPageWikiLink United_States_Postal_Service.
- Metropolitan_Special wikiPageWikiLink Washington,_D.C..
- Metropolitan_Special wikiPageWikiLink File:B&O_Metropolitan_Special_route.png.
- Metropolitan_Special wikiPageWikiLinkText "Metropolitan Special".
- Metropolitan_Special hasPhotoCollection Metropolitan_Special.
- Metropolitan_Special wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Cite_book.
- Metropolitan_Special wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Infobox_B&O_Named_Trains.
- Metropolitan_Special wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Italic_title.
- Metropolitan_Special wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:US-rail-transport-stub.
- Metropolitan_Special wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:WestVirginia-transport-stub.
- Metropolitan_Special subject Category:Named_passenger_trains_of_the_United_States.
- Metropolitan_Special subject Category:Passenger_rail_transportation_in_West_Virginia.
- Metropolitan_Special subject Category:Passenger_trains_of_the_Baltimore_and_Ohio_Railroad.
- Metropolitan_Special hypernym Train.
- Metropolitan_Special type Train.
- Metropolitan_Special type Train.
- Metropolitan_Special comment "The Metropolitan Special was the workhorse passenger train of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) during the 1920s–1960s between St. Louis, Missouri and Jersey City, New Jersey, where at Communipaw Terminal passengers transferred to buses and ferries to Manhattan in New York City. Major station stops included Washington, D.C., and Cincinnati, Ohio.".
- Metropolitan_Special label "Metropolitan Special".
- Metropolitan_Special sameAs m.02r62np.
- Metropolitan_Special sameAs Q6825254.
- Metropolitan_Special sameAs Q6825254.
- Metropolitan_Special wasDerivedFrom Metropolitan_Special?oldid=597841838.
- Metropolitan_Special depiction B&O_Metropolitan_Special_route.png.
- Metropolitan_Special isPrimaryTopicOf Metropolitan_Special.