Night Express (B&O train)

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| type = Inter-city rail

| status = Discontinued

| locale = Mid-West

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| first = 1960 [c.1921 as unnamed train]

| last = 1967

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| start = Detroit, Michigan

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| end = Louisville, Kentucky

| distance = {{convert|257.5|mi|km}} (1960)

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| frequency = Daily

| trainnumber = 57 (southbound)
58 (northbound)

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| seating = Reclining seat coach

| sleeping = Roomettes, double bedrooms (1960)

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| catering = Snack-lounge car

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The Night Express was an American named train of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) on its route between Detroit, Michigan, and Louisville, Kentucky, with major station stops in Toledo, Ohio, and Cincinnati. The service was numbered Train 57 southbound and Train 58 northbound. The numbers 57/58 operated on the Detroit - Cincinnati line as early as 1921.{{cite journal |title=Baltimore and Ohio, Table 86 |journal=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=54 |issue=1 |date=June 1921}} The service was provided in conjunction with the Pere Marquette Railroad (and later, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway) from Detroit to Toledo and with the Louisville and Nashville from Cincinnati to Louisville with connections to New Orleans.

The train went unnamed until 1960 when the B&O gave the name Night Express to the 57/58 Detroit-Louisville itinerary.{{cite journal |title=Baltimore and Ohio, Table 15, Named on the consist table, 'Pullman, Coach and Dining Car Service' |journal=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=92 |issue=12 |date=May 1960}} By 1963, the southern terminus of the train route was shortened to Cincinnati's Union Terminal.{{cite journal |title=Baltimore and Ohio, Consist table, 'Pullman, Coach and Dining Car Service,' and Table 11 |journal=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=96 |issue=1 |date=June 1963}}

The Night Express had its Detroit beginning point in the New York Central's Michigan Central Station in Detroit 1963, when the B&O and the C&O merged and the B&O moved it to the Fort Street Union Depot in Detroit.{{cite journal |title=Baltimore and Ohio, Consist table, 'Pullman, Coach and Dining Car Service,' and Table 11 |journal=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=96 |issue=1 |date=June 1963}}C&O/B&O timetable, April 26, 1964, Table 3 https://streamlinermemories.info/Eastern/C&OB&O64TT.pdf

With the September 1967 schedule, the B&O dropped the train from service.{{cite journal |title=Baltimore & Ohio Railroad |journal=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=100 |issue=5 |date=October 1967}}reporting from the September B&O timetable