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===Passenger trains in the 20th century=== [[File:EAST ELEVATION, FROM SOUTHEAST, CLOSER VIEW. ALSO SHOWS ONE-STORY ADDITION ON THE SOUTH END - Union Station, North Royal Street, Jackson, Madison County, TN HABS TENN,57-JACSO,1-5.tif|thumb|Jackson Union Station]] Jackson had been a west Tennessee hub for passenger train service. Passengers had direct service to Memphis, Nashville, Meridian, Montgomery, Mobile, Birmingham, Jacksonville, Daytona, Miami, Centralia, Champaign-Urbana, Springfield, Chicago, St. Louis, and New Orleans.<ref name="city"/> From the 1930s to the 1960s, multiple regularly scheduled passenger trains of the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio and the Illinois Central made stops at Union Station.<ref>Library of Congress, Union Station, North Royal Street, Jackson, Madison County, TN https://www.loc.gov/item/tn0100/</ref> Gulf, Mobile and Ohio trains included:<ref>{{cite journal |title=Gulf, Mobile and Ohio, Tables 10, 11 |journal=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=82 |issue=3 |date=August 1949}}</ref> *''[[Gulf Coast Rebel]]'' ([[St. Louis, Missouri]] β [[Mobile, Alabama]]) *''The Rebel'' (Chicago β [[New Orleans]], Louisiana) Illinois Central trains included:<ref>'Flashback Miami' June 3, 2015; includes reference to 'Floridan' without a second 'i' http://flashbackmiami.com/2015/06/03/seaboard-railroad/</ref><ref>'Official Guide of the Railways,' August 1936, Illinois Central section, additional reference documenting 'Floridan' spelling</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Illinois Central, Table 4 |journal=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=82 |issue=3 |date=August 1949}}</ref> *''[[City of Miami (train)|The City of Miami]]'' ([[Chicago]], Illinois β [[Miami]], Florida) *''The Floridan'' (Chicago β Miami) *''[[Seminole (train)|The Seminole]]'' (Chicago β [[Jacksonville, Florida]]) *''Sunchaser'' (Chicago and St. Louis β Miami)
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