Champion (train)
The Champion was a passenger train on a 1,346-mile (2,166 km) route via the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and other railroads between New York City and Miami or St. Petersburg, Florida, beginning in 1939. Inherited by Amtrak when it started in 1971, the train was discontinued in 1979.
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“But now Miss America, World’s champion woman, you take your promenading self down into the cobalt blue waters of the Caribbean and see what happens. You meet a lot of darkish men who make vociferous love to you, but otherwise pay you no mid.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)