Campus (train) explained

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Campus
Type:Inter-city rail
Status:Discontinued
Locale:Illinois
First:November 14, 1971
Last:March 5, 1972
Formeroperator:Amtrak
Start:Chicago
Stops:2
End:Champaign-Urbana
Distance:127miles
Journeytime:2 hours 10 minutes
Frequency:Friday/Sunday
Trainnumber:394 and 395
Catering:On-board cafe
Owners:Illinois Central
Map State:collapsed

The Campus was a passenger train operated by Amtrak between Chicago and Champaign, Illinois. The Chicago-Champaign corridor already saw two trains daily: the Shawnee (Chicago-Carbondale) and the Panama Limited (Chicago-New Orleans). The Campus made a round-trip Friday and Sunday, serving the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. A second train, the Illini, made a Friday trip. The Campus first appeared on the November 14, 1971, timetable, the first timetable Amtrak issued with its own numbers.[1] Amtrak discontinued the Campus and Illini on March 5, 1972. Both trains had used Central Station, which Amtrak was abandoning; Amtrak judged that the additional 35–40 minutes necessary to serve Union Station made the schedule impractical.[2] The Campus was the last passenger train to use Central Station.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Nationwide schedules of intercity passenger service . November 14, 1971 . April 10, 2010 . .
  2. In fact, a re-launched Illini needed only an additional fifteen minutes to make the trip in 1974. Web site: All-America Schedules . November 15, 1974 . April 10, 2010 . Amtrak.