Box Width: | 300px |
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.