Night Express


The Night Express was an American named train of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad on its route between Detroit, Michigan and Louisville, Kentucky with major station stops in Toledo, Ohio and Cincinnati. The Night Express was numbered Train 57 southbound and Train 58 northbound. The service was provided in conjunction with the Pere Marquette Railroad from Detroit to Toledo and with the Louisville and Nashville from Cincinnati to Louisville with connections to New Orleans.

Schedule and equipment

In 1947, southbound Night Express Train # 57 operated on the following schedule :
In the 1940s, the southbound Night Express consisted of two or three head-end cars, an RPO baggage car, 12 sleepers. Between Cincinnati and Louisville there was a dining-lounge car.
After the B&O's functional merger in 1963 with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, the train departed from the Detroit's Fort Street Union Depot instead of Michigan Central Station. With the September, 1967 schedule, the B&O dropped the train from service.