Piedmont Limited


The Piedmont Limited was a named passenger train operated by the Southern Railway in the southern United States. For most of its life it was a New York—New Orleans train, operating over the same route as the more famous Crescent Limited. The Southern Railway introduced the train on March 12, 1899, and it was known as the of the route until the introduction of the Crescent in 1925. The Southern Railway discontinued the Piedmont Limited in 1976.

Route details

In its prime the Piedmont Limited operated over the following roads:
Aside from the above cited cities, the train served Newark, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Lynchburg, Charlottesville, Greensboro, Charlotte, Spartanburg, Greenville, Gainesville, Mobile and Gulfport.
A spur branch served Birmingham, but this was eliminated by 1964. Amid the postwar decline in passenger rail service, by 1967 the train was cut back to an Atlanta-Washington daytime service, supplementing the then-Southern Crescent along its middle leg. In 1975, its southern terminus was truncated to Charlotte.
By the time it was discontinued in 1976, the once-proud train had seen its southern terminus cut back to Salisbury, North Carolina.