{"id":1691,"date":"2008-05-13T16:45:14","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T20:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2008\/05\/13\/national-train-day-the-lake-shore-limited\/"},"modified":"2008-05-13T16:45:14","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T20:45:14","slug":"national-train-day-the-lake-shore-limited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2008\/05\/national-train-day-the-lake-shore-limited\/","title":{"rendered":"National Train Day &#038; The Lake Shore Limited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/lsb.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/ls.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"Lake Shore Limited\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(click on image for larger view)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(By <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/forgottenbuffalo.com\/\">Marty Biniasz<\/a>)<\/em> This past Saturday, America celebrated the first ever \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaltrainday.com\/\">National Train Day<\/a>.\u201d The date, May 10th, commemorated the driving of the \u201cGolden Spike\u201d in Promontory Summit that ceremonially created the nation\u2019s first transcontinental railroad. The 2008 celebration featured parties at New York\u2019s Penn Station and Union stations in Washington DC, Chicago and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>With the opening of the New York Central Railroad\u2019s Belt Line in the late 1800s and then the completion of Buffalo\u2019s Central Terminal in 1929, the Polonia District began a unique civic relationship with railroads. To this day, hundreds of freight and passenger trains traverse the neighborhood adding flashes of color to the historic landscape. The distant sound of melodic horns are just as common as the bells from the steeples of St. Stan\u2019s and Corpus Christi.<\/p>\n<p>The picture attached was taken on May 10th on Howard Street as Amtrak\u2019s Lake Shore Limited headed west to Chicago. A half century ago, the 20th Century Limited would have stopped at the Central Terminal as it followed the same route to the \u201cwindy city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forgottenbuffalo.com\/\">http:\/\/forgottenbuffalo.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(click on image for larger view) (By Marty Biniasz) This past Saturday, America celebrated the first ever \u201cNational Train Day.\u201d The date, May 10th, commemorated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-bf-people"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-rh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}