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	The 20th Century Limited and other New York Central Passenger Trains
		In 1947 a trio of EMD E units are powering the 20th Century Limited southbound along the banks of the Hudson River.
		We have a great picture of the NYC 20th Century Limited along the Hudson, another picture of a NY Central Niagara pulling a passenger train at Beacon and even more great New York Central Railroad pictures.
		What followed until the introduction of the 1948 Century was a train of continually altered paint schemes and the wear and tear of running through the war years.
	www.lakemirabel.com /Railroad/20thCentury1.html (3234 words)

	The 20th Century Limited and other New York Central Passenger Trains
		In 1947 a trio of EMD E units are powering the 20th Century Limited southbound along the banks of the Hudson River.
		June 15, 1938 The "20th Century Limited" is equipped with new streamlined equipment and a new schedule that averages 60 mph.
		January 9, 1955 The departure of the 20th Century Limited from New York is broadcast live on the Television show "Omnibus".
	www.rosshorwood.com /RailSiteLinksFiles/20thCentury.html (2963 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Probing the 21st century
		In the case of the 20th century, the situation is further complicated by the ascendancy of ideology.
		Actually, the 20th century can be called the age of ideology, of closed systems which claimed to use scientific methodology to investigate social and historical reality, even if most of those ideologies originated in previous centuries.
		To the extent that ideology was gradually downgraded throughout the second half of the 20th century, technology was significantly upgraded.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /1998/393/op3.htm (822 words)

	20th Century Limited - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 20th Century Limited (and specifically, car #10006) was used in the filming of Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, released in 1959.
		June 15, 1902: The 20th Century Limited is inaugurated.
		The 20th Century Limited was the setting for a Broadway musical composed by Cy Coleman and written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green entitled On the Twentieth Century, about the romantic complications of a beautiful actress and an egocentric producer/director.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/20th_Century_Limited (1068 words)

	The 20th century in review - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Above all, the 20th century is distinguished from most of human history in that its most significant changes were directly or indirectly economic and technological in nature.
		The great changes of centuries before the 19th were more connected with ideas, religion or military conquest, and technological advance had only made small changes in the material wealth of ordinary people.
		The latter half of the twentieth century was profoundly marred by the competition between the two world superpowers: the United States and the Soviet Union.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_20th_Century_in_Review (8781 words)

	20th century - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		The term is also used to describe various periods that overlap with the calendar definition, most notably the Short twentieth century, which claims that 1900-1913 is really part of the 1800s and that the 1990s are the dawn of the 21st Century.
		The 20th century has sometimes been called, both within and outside the United States, the American Century, though this is a controversial term.
		Advances in fundamental physics through the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics led to the development of nuclear weapons (known informally as "the Bomb" and dropped on the industrial town of Hiroshima and the historic one of Nagasaki), the nuclear reactor, and the laser.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/2/0/t/20th_century.html (1954 words)

	20th Century Limited - Definition, explanation
		The 20th Century Limited was a passenger train operated by the New York Central (NYC) railroad.
		The 20th Century Limited was also used by Alfred Hitchcock in his 1959 film North by Northwest.
		December 3 1967: The 20th Century Limited is discontinued just before the merger of the New York Central and the Pennsylvania Railroad to form the Penn Central.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/2/20/20th_century_limited.php (516 words)

	Lake Shore Limited - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lake Shore Limited is a daily 959-mile (1543 km) passenger train route operated by Amtrak in the Midwestern and Northeastern United States.
		The Lake Shore Limited was previously operated by the New York Central (NYC) railroad.
		The Lake Shore Limited is jokingly referred to as the Late For Sure Limited, or the Late Shore Limited among railfans, as the line frequently runs significantly behind schedule.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lake_Shore_Limited (583 words)

	20th Century Limited
		This authoritative history of the 20th Century Limited from 1902 to its demise in 1967 examines the train; its steam, electric, and diesel motive power; and its swank passenger cars, services and amenities.
		The Century was a train of magnates and movie stars, with the red carpet rolled out for departure from Chicago to New York City.
		With the finest of food in the diner and a full array of amenities—barber, secretary, shower, maid—the 20th Century Limited set the standard against which all other passenger trains were measured.
	www.heimburgerhouse.com /railfan_books/20th_century_limited_files/20th_century_limited.htm (143 words)

	History of the Central Terminal: 1842-1945; Section 2
		The Century was noted for being "on time" and if it ever ran late, there would be serious problems for those responsible for making it late.
		Another odd thing about the Century is the fact that even though Buffalo was the midway point for both runs, a passenger would not be able to board the train at Central Terminal.
		The Empire, along with the Century, was redesigned in the 30's to fit into the "streamlining" craze that took control of many of the country's railroads.
	www.buffalohistoryworks.com /terminal/history2/history2.html (1295 words)

	e-Train - TCA, Toy Trains, Train Collectors Association (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The history of the 20th Century Limited goes back to the late 1890's when the New York Central and the Pennsylvania railroads tried to best each other on the New York-Chicago run.
		By the mid-'20's the train was being called a "national institution." In the 1920's the Atlantics were replaced by the Hudsons which hauled the 20th Century until they were replaced by diesels in the 1950's.
		The 20th Century Limited was a great service and the inspiration for songs, plays, movies and radio shows.
	www.tcamembers.org /articles/tickets/20thcentury (438 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The 20th Century Limited was an express passenger train operated by the New York Central Railroad from 1902 to 1967, during which time it would become known as a "National Institution" and the "Most Famous Train in the World." In the year of its last run,
		The 20th Century Limited (and specifically, car #10006) was used in the filming of Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, released in 1959.
		The 20th Century Limited was the setting for a Broadway musical composed by Cy Coleman and written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green entitled On the Twentieth Century, about the romantic complications of a beautiful actress and an egocentric producer/director.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=20th_Century_Limited (1485 words)

	20th Century Limited (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The poor ugly steam locomotive had to go and so the idea of streamlining the engine with a set of matching passenger cars was born.
		The New York Central's 20th Century Limited, in service since June 1902, was the second N.Y.C. 'named' train to get this modernization.
		After carriage aboard the 20th to New York and receipt of the cachet and RMS cancel, it was placed into the mail service to return back to him in Chicago, via the airplane.
	philately.ttrr.org /usa/us01002.html (424 words)

	A-Clue.Com,20th Century Limited , WiFi, Journalism, Clued-in, Clueless; newsletter of 11/7/2005 - from Dana Blankenhorn ...
		With a "crack" of thunder last Friday I was plunged into the deep past, into the 20th century.
		The world of the 20th century, I quickly learned, is a world of limited information.
		The 21st century, then, is headed into a real depression that will last until the business model difficulties are sorted out.
	www.a-clue.com /archive/05/cl051107.htm (1423 words)

	A Stylish Ride Back in Time: Restored Observation Car From 20th Century Limited Train Gives Enthusiasts a Taste of the ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		After the 20th Century Limited was retired in 1967, the Hickory Creek was used for a time as the tail car on a Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus train and eventually fell into disrepair.
		With its patterned carpets, plush seating and sleek aesthetics of today, the Hickory Creek owes its condition and appearance to restoration by the United Railroad Historical Society of New Jersey, which funded the job with a federal grant.
		Even so, the historical society members at least were able to pass the delays in style.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1Y1-105776427.html (742 words)

	20th Century Limited at AllExperts
		Train #25 of the Boston & Albany Railroad, The 20th Century Limited, is seen leaving Springfield, Massachusetts on August 22, 1933.
		The 20th Century Limited (and specifically, car #10006) was used in the filming of Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, released in 1959.
		One of the five stamps features an image of a streamlined J-3a steam locomotive leading the 20th Century Limited out of the Chicago railyards on its way to New York, with the Board of Trade Building in the background.
	en.allexperts.com /e/0/20th_Century_Limited.htm (907 words)

	Welcome to the City of Elkhart, Indiana - The City with a Heart (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The 20th Century Limited: A Legend on the Rails, which features the most complete collection of the 20th Century Limited dining care dinnerware on display anywhere in the world.
		The 4085 is significant in that it was used on the last run of the famed 20TH CENTURY LIMITED in 1967.
		It is an example of the first generation of diesel locomotive technology that led to the discontinuance of steam locomotives on American railroads in the 1940s and 1950s.
	www.elkhartindiana.org /content.php?id=19&c_id=74 (536 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 20th century (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The term is also used to describe various periods that overlap with the calendar definition, most notably the Short twentieth century and the Modern period.
		List of famous Old Etonians born in the 20th century
		List of monarchs who lost their thrones or abdicated in the 20th century
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /20th_century (1883 words)

	Video Encyclopedia of the 20th Century, NUIT, Northwestern University (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Video Encyclopedia is a collection of motion picture film and videotape recording the social, political and cultural history of the 20th Century from 1893 to 1989.
		The original (analog video) version of the Video Encyclopedia is currently in use at over 1,500 schools and universities in the US.
		In its original collection format---83 hours of video content stored on 42 laserdisks---its use by students and faculty was bound by the constraints of dedicated viewing-stations and limited search-and-retrieval mechanisms.
	www.it.northwestern.edu /about/departments/at/projects/encyclopedia (141 words)

	Manks Limited- 20th Century Decorative Arts European Antiques Scandinavian Furniture
		Ten years on, in our continuing effort to promote the appreciation of history and culture, Manks lovingly restored a neglected 1935 colonial terrace house off Garden Road for use as our present showroom, making a bold statement again to all who pass that the past is not to be dismissed.
		Owing to her commitment to 20th Century Scandinavian Modern Design in the region, Manks was invited in 2005 as sole representative of mid-century modern furniture and lighting designed by Scandinavian Design icons, Hans Wegner, Verner Panton, Ilmari Tapiovaara, Nanna Ditzel and Borge Morgensen.
		Our aim is to provide the discerning with a portfolio of character properties not listed with the regular real estate agents as well as offering the owners of older properties, the opportunity to list their property with a company offering a group of receptive clientele, who appreciate the beauty of the past.
	www.manks.com /main/profile.html (606 words)

	20th Century Limited
		Generally considered the most famous passenger train ever, the New York to Chicago 20th Century Limited, was fittingly pulled by some of the century’s greatest locomotive designs.
		This authoritative history of the 20th Century Limited from 1902 to its 1967 demise examines the train; its steam, electric, and diesel motive power; and its swank passenger cars, services, and amenities.
		Dozens of fl-and-white archival images and period color photographs depict the train along its route, as well as dinnerware and menus, advertisements, route maps, and interior views of cars, in the process providing a dramatic visual account of train travel’s development throughout the century.
	www.railroadcatalog.com /20celi.html (103 words)

	Passenger rail in the 20th Century - Railway Age, December 1999
		Passenger rail entered the 20th Century as a substantial, robust component of the railroad industry.
		Over the last half of the 19th Century railroads had expanded into a continental network that reached virtually every point of consequence in North America, and passenger trains had long since emerged as America's principal mode of intercity travel.
		At the dawn of the new century, the passenger train had evolved from the primitive equipment of the industry's early years into trains that offered high standards of comfort and luxury to travelers.
	www.railwayage.com /dec99/passenger.html (3077 words)

	This Week's Clue: 20th Century Limited. Moore's Lore:
		With a "crack" of thunder last Friday I was plunged into the deep past, into the 20th century.
		My view of the local scene was limited to what my newspaper chose to print.
		The 21st century, then, is headed into a real depression that will last until the business model difficulties are sorted out.
	mooreslore.corante.com /archives/2005/11/04/this_weeks_clue_20th_century_limited.php (1228 words)

	NACo \| History of County Government (Site not responding. Last check: )
		century rule that a county seat should be within a day’s buggy ride for every citizen.
		Centuries later, both in England and in the New World, this plural executive structure would be identified as a major problem hampering the effectiveness and accountability of modern county governments.
		century saw a series of court decisions that clarified counties’ status for the first time, and created precedents that would restrain county activism in service delivery for more than 100 years to come.
	www.naco.org /Content/NavigationMenu/About_Counties/History_of_County_Government/Default983.htm (2608 words)

	Talking Walls - Posters
		The power to travel between New York and Chicago quickly was a marvel of the mid-20th century.
		This Henry Dreyfuss design for a locomotive is the essence of an early 20th century "streamliner." Any railroad aficionado will be familiar with this creation - part art deco, part high modernism yet only ten of them were ever built.
		Henry Dreyfuss' design of "The New 20th Century Limited" was instrumental in defining the American art deco era.
	wally.rit.edu /special/talkingwalls/20th-century-limited.html (569 words)

	20th Century Limited (Site not responding. Last check: )
		There is not a bad thing to say about this book - if anything, you'll wish there were just a few more pages, but that's more a testament to the quality of what's there than a commentary on what might be missing.
		The 20th Century Limited comes alive in this fascinating book and I guess Karl Zimmermann has now written the definitive story.
		The 20th Century Limited was the classiest of the great streamliners and a wonderful example of creative styling for which America has become rightly famous.
	domesticmuscle.com /books/isbn0760314225.html (450 words)

	On-the-cuff chic is back - The Boston Globe
		NE DAY LAST JUNE, a man was browsing through the Aladdin's cave that is 20th Century Limited, a vintage jewelry store on Beacon Hill's Charles Street.
		The sub-street level shop is a wondrous display of metals and stone, plastics, and fabric long ago cut, polished, and fashioned into elaborate adornments -- hats, earrings, tiaras, you name it.
		He was pondering selling his cuff links and asked 20th Century's owner Paul Turnberg if he might be interested in buying his collection, built up over a lifetime, and numbering 1,250 pairs.
	www.boston.com /yourlife/fashion/articles/2007/03/15/on_the_cuff_chic_is_back (620 words)

	20th Century Limited
		The book starts out as the memoir of an elderly Englishwoman who was born on January 1, 1900, and whose life story inevitably reflects the century itself.
		Naturally, he turns out to be a young creative type called Bruno Maddox, who, for reasons that become clear later, has to fake the autobiography of a 100-year-old woman in the course of one frenzied night.
		Unfortunately, everything Bruno knows about the twentieth century comes out of a movie or TV show, which is why, on the rare occasions when he does manage to stay in character, all he has to offer is clichés about cloches.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/books/reviews/4853/index.html (791 words)

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