Interstate Express

The train was presented as affording Washington to Syracuse travel. However, the trip required a change from riding a B&O train in metropolitan Philadelphia to a train originating from the Reading Terminal. The one-station transfer would be available at Wayne Junction in North Philadelphia. However, by 1949 the Interstate Express did not stop at Wayne Junction in the northbound direction; so, passengers would need to transfer at Lansdale station. Riders seeking to transfer in Philadelphia would need to disembark at the B&O's 24th & Chestnut Station in Philadelphia, take a cab or the Market Street subway to Reading Terminal for the originating northbound DLW train. Southbound, this transfer would be available.Lackawanna timetable, June 30, 1939, Table 9Official Guide of the Railways, August 1949, Lackawanna section{{cite journal |title=Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Table 9 |journal=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=82 |issue=8 |date=January 1950}} Indeed, by 1954, the Wayne Junction stop would be eliminated from the timetable, so a transfer at Lansdale station transfer would be needed in both directions in latter years of the train.{{cite web| title=Lackawanna Railroad's full schedule| date=April 25, 1954| page=13| url=http://viewoftheblue.com/photography/timetables/DLW042554.pdf}}

Originally, the entire trip was possible via coach.Lackawanna timetable, June 8, 1946, consists section However, by mid-1949, there were no coaches between Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and the next stop, Binghamton, New York.Official Guide of the Railways, August 1949, Lackawanna section, p. 152 Thus, full-length travel was only possible by sleeper car. The Binghamton to Syracuse segment was joined by cars from a direct DLW Railroad train from that company's Hoboken Terminal.{{cite web| title=Lackawanna Railroad's full schedule| date=April 25, 1954| page=10| url=http://viewoftheblue.com/photography/timetables/DLW042554.pdf}} However, the operators allowed for passengers to split their trip between part of the trip in sleeping cars or in parlor cars and other parts of the trip in coaches.{{cite web| title=Lackawanna Railroad's full schedule| date=April 25, 1954| page=13| url=http://viewoftheblue.com/photography/timetables/DLW042554.pdf}}

The train's service ended by 1957.

Reading southbound as one reads down

• Syracuse (Lackawanna Station)
• Tully
• Homer (stopping north-bound only by the mid-1950s)
• Cortland
• Marathon
• Whitney Point (stopping north-bound only by the mid-1950s)
• Binghamton (Lackawanna Station)
• Wilkes-Barre (Central of New Jersey Station)
• Jim Thorpe (nee Mauch Chunk)
• Allentown (Allentown station (Central Railroad of New Jersey))Official Guide of the Railways, August 1936, Reading Railroad section, Condensed table (eliminated by the mid-1950s)
• Bethlehem (Union Station) (stopping south-bound only by the mid-1950s)
• Lansdale (Lansdale station)
• North Philadelphia (Wayne Junction) (stopping south-bound only by the mid-1950s)
• Philadelphia (Reading Terminal)Lackawanna timetable, June 8, 1946

The train was timed to receive passengers from the Hoboken to Buffalo night train, the Owl (#15). Southbound, the connecting train was the New York Mail (#10).Lackawanna timetable, June 30, 1939, Table 7

Reading west-east as one reads down

• Buffalo (Lackawanna Station)
• Corning
• Elmira
• Binghamton (Lackawanna Station)

Reading north-south as one reads down

• Wilmington
• Baltimore (Mount Royal Station)
• Washington, D.C. (Union Station)

This overnight train offered sleeper car service from Philadelphia to Syracuse. The connecting Washington to Philadelphia service offered a dining car-parlor car.{{cite web| title=Lackawanna Railroad's full schedule| date=April 25, 1954| page=2| url=http://viewoftheblue.com/photography/timetables/DLW042554.pdf}}Maiken, Peter. Night Trains, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989, pp. 371, 384. {{ISBN|9780801845031}}.

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