Lake Cities (train)
The
Lake Cities was a passenger train operated by the Erie Railroad and its successor the Erie Lackawanna Railway between Chicago, and New York City. The
Lake Cities began in 1939 as the
Midlander, a Jersey City-Chicago service with sections to Cleveland, Ohio, and Buffalo, New York. Unlike other New York-Chicago runs, it bypassed Buffalo to the south and ran through the Southern Tier of New York State. A few years before the Erie's 1960 merger with the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, the
Lake Cities began running into the Hoboken Terminal in Hoboken, New Jersey, rather than the Erie's Pavonia Terminal, in Jersey City. Between 1961 and 1962, the train was known as the "
Chicago Lake Cities/Buffalo Lake Cities", but reverted to
Lake Cities again. Sleeper service ended on October 28, 1962. In connection with the 1964 World's Fair in New York, the
Lake Cities was renamed
The World's Fair from April 26 until October 25, 1964.