The train went unnamed until 1960 when the B&O gave the name Night Express to the 57/58 Detroit-Louisville itinerary.[2] By 1963, the southern terminus of the train route was shortened to Cincinnati's Union Terminal.[3]
The Night Express had its Detroit beginning point in the New York Central's Michigan Central Station in Detroit 1963, when the B&O and the C&O merged and the B&O moved it to the Fort Street Union Depot in Detroit.[4][5]
With the September 1967 schedule, the B&O dropped the train from service.[6]
source: Baltimore and Ohio System Timetable, July 6, 1947[7]
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.
References
^"Baltimore and Ohio, Table 86". Official Guide of the Railways. 54 (1). National Railway Publication Company. June 1921.
^"Baltimore and Ohio, Table 15, Named on the consist table, 'Pullman, Coach and Dining Car Service'". Official Guide of the Railways. 92 (12). National Railway Publication Company. May 1960.
^"Baltimore and Ohio, Consist table, 'Pullman, Coach and Dining Car Service,' and Table 11". Official Guide of the Railways. 96 (1). National Railway Publication Company. June 1963.
^"Baltimore and Ohio, Consist table, 'Pullman, Coach and Dining Car Service,' and Table 11". Official Guide of the Railways. 96 (1). National Railway Publication Company. June 1963.
^"Baltimore & Ohio Railroad". Official Guide of the Railways. 100 (5). National Railway Publication Company. October 1967.reporting from the September B&O timetable
^Baltimore and Ohio System Timetable. Baltimore: B&0 Press, July 6, 1947, p. 29.