Empire State Express (Express train)

found: Work cat: 73013300: Empire State Express, the second, taking water on the fly, 1905.

found: The George Kleine Collection of early motion pictures in the Library of Congress : a catalog, 1980p. 35 (The second Empire State Express, behind a 4-4-2 Atlantic locomotive, demonstrates how to take water on the fly)

found: Wikipedia WWW site, viewed December 15, 2014(The Empire State Express was one of the named passenger trains and onetime flagship of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, a predecessor of the later New York Central Railroad. When Amtrak took over the nation's passenger service on May 1, 1971 it consolidated trains on the New York--Albany--Buffalo corridor into the "Empire Service". Amtrak revived the name, although not the route to match, on January 6, 1974 when it gave names to Empire Service trains. The Empire State Express returned as a New York--Buffalo train, numbers 71 and 78. Amtrak brought the name back in 1978 as a New York--Buffalo service, which in 1979 was extended to Niagara Falls. A few years later Amtrak dropped train names on the Empire Corridor.)

found: New York times, June 15, 1902, viewed via ProQuest historical newspapers database, December 15, 2014p. 2 ("Fast trains to the west", The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company has now provided [trains] for its route...between New York and Chicago [including] the Empire State Express [and] the second edition of the Empire State Express, which will be called the Buffalo Limited and which goes into service today, leaving New York at 12:50 P.M.)