{"id":2360,"date":"2016-03-03T21:33:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T02:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/?p=2360"},"modified":"2016-03-03T22:14:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T03:14:20","slug":"why-do-amtrak-routes-have-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/why-do-amtrak-routes-have-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do Amtrak routes have names?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The practice of naming trains is nearly as old as that of naming ships. Today routes may take their names from those of an original train, a location, or even a reputation. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cardinal (New York to Chicago) is so named because the state bird of all the states on that route is the cardinal.<\/li>\n<li>Silver Meteor (New York to Miami) was named after the original classic streamliner of gleaming silver stainless-steel passenger cars with a reputation for speedy service.<\/li>\n<li>Adirondack (New York to Montreal) is named after the Adirondack Mountains, through which it travels.<\/li>\n<li>Downeaster (Portland, ME, to Boston) is named after the sailing vessels that once traveled &#8220;down east&#8221; along the New England shoreline.<\/li>\n<li>Lincoln Service (Chicago to St. Louis) is named for Illinois native Abraham Lincoln.<\/li>\n<li>California Zephyr (Chicago to San Francisco) takes its name after the diesel-powered passenger train of the same name and the famous west wind from which it was inspired.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The practice of naming trains is nearly as old as that of naming ships. Today routes may take their names from those of an original train, a location, or even a reputation. For example: Cardinal (New York to Chicago) is so named because the state bird of all the states &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}