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:
“Let’s not quibble! I’m the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, “I’d rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.””
—Tallulah Bankhead (1903–1968)