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| type = [[Inter-city rail]]
| status = Discontinued
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| first = March 12, 1899
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The '''''Piedmont Limited''''' was a named passenger train operated by the [[Southern Railway (US)|Southern Railway]] in the [[southern United States]]. For most of its life it was a [[New York City|New York]]—[[New Orleans]] train, operating over the same route as the more famous ''[[Crescent (train)|Crescent Limited]]''. The Southern Railway discontinued the ''Piedmont Limited'' in 1967, though reused the name ''Piedmont'' a few years later for an Atlanta–Washington service.
==History== The Southern Railway introduced the train on March 12, 1899, and it was known as the [ A spur branch served [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]], but this was eliminated by 1964.<ref>Southern timetable, April 1964, Table B http://streamlinermemories.info/South/SRR64-4TT.pdf</ref> By the end of that year, the southbound itinerary of the route was cut from running from New York to New Orleans to having [[Kings Mountain, North Carolina]], south of [[Charlotte, North Carolina]] as the southern terminus of the route.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Southern Railway, Table B |journal=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=97 |issue=7 |date=December 1964}}</ref> By late 1966, the train was running from Washington, D.C. to [[Salisbury, North Carolina]] in both directions.<ref>{{cite news |title=Hearings Set On Bid To Drop SR Train |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-durham-sun/130440123/ |access-date=August 24, 2023 |agency=The Durham Sun |via=Newspapers.com |date=May 26, 1967 |page=14}} {{free access}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Southern Railway, Table D |journal=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=99 |issue=7 |date=December 1966}}</ref> Amid the postwar decline in passenger rail service, the train was eliminated in 1967.<ref name=CoxDixie>{{Cox-Dixie}}</ref>
===''Piedmont''===
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Beginning in 1970 the ''Piedmont'' name was revived for an Atlanta–Washington daytime service, supplementing the then-''Southern Crescent'' along its middle leg. Southern did not join [[Amtrak]] in 1971, leaving the service as one of the few intercity rail routes in America which was not operated by the new quasi-government agency.<ref name=Edmonson>{{cite book |last1=Edmonson |first1=Harold A. |title=Journey to Amtrak |date=1972 |publisher=Kalmbach Publishing |isbn=978-0890240236 |pages=102–104}}</ref><ref name=Eve>{{cite magazine |magazine=[[Trains magazine|Trains]]|title=Passenger trains operating on the eve of Amtrak |url=https://ctr.trains.com/~/media/import/files/pdf/f/7/7/passenger_trains_operating_on_the_eve_of_amtrak.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224220507/https://ctr.trains.com/~/media/import/files/pdf/f/7/7/passenger_trains_operating_on_the_eve_of_amtrak.pdf |archive-date=2021-02-24 }}</ref> In 1975, its southern terminus was truncated to [[Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte]]. This train was discontinued in 1976; by then its southern terminus had been cut back to [[Salisbury, North Carolina]].<ref name="CoxDixie" />
== Route details ==
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*[[West Point Route]]: Atlanta—[[Montgomery, Alabama]]
*[[Louisville and Nashville Railroad]]: Montgomery—New Orleans
===Major cities served===
Aside from the above cited cities, the train served Newark, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Lynchburg, Charlottesville, Greensboro, Charlotte, Spartanburg, Greenville, Gainesville, Mobile and Gulfport.<ref>Southern timetable, July 1952 Table B http://streamlinermemories.info/South/SOU52TT.pdf</ref>
== References ==
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[[Category:Named passenger trains of the United States]]
[[Category:Railway services discontinued in 1976]]
[[Category:Passenger rail transportation in Alabama]]
[[Category:Passenger rail transportation in Georgia (U.S. state)]]
[[Category:Passenger rail transportation in Louisiana]]
[[Category:Passenger rail transportation in Mississippi]]
[[Category:Passenger rail transportation in North Carolina]]
[[Category:Passenger rail transportation in South Carolina]]
[[Category:Passenger rail transportation in Virginia]]
[[Category:Transportation in New Orleans]]
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