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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Famous quotes containing the word champion:
“What a terrible thing has happened to us all! To you there, to us here, to all everywhere. Peace who was becoming bright-eyed, now sits in the shadow of death; her handsome champion has been killed as he walked by her very side. Her gallant boy is dead. What a cruel, foul, and most unnatural murder! We mourn here with you, poor, sad American people.”
—Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)