ANN RUTLEDGE (AMTRAK)

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The '''Ann Rutledge''' is a passenger train service operated by Amtrak running between St. Louis, Missouri, and Kansas City, Missouri. Presently it is exclusively an Amtrak Missouri Service train. Until spring of 2007 it operated as part of both the ''Illinois Service'' and ''Missouri Service'' Amtrak routes along the full route between Chicago and Kansas City via St. Louis. The train service uses the same track as one other Amtrak route, the ''Kansas City Mule''.
Prior to April 2007 the train operated as number 303 eastbound and 304 westbound between Chicago and Kansas City via St. Louis over the full 567-mile (912 km)route. Since April 2007 the ''Ann Rutledge'' operates daily between St. Louis and Kansas City connecting to the Illinois Amtrak ''Lincoln Service'' at St. Louis. Its current numbers are 313 westbound and 314 eastbound.
The train was named for Ann Rutledge, a woman from New Salem, Illinois, who may have been the first love of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
The story of Lincoln and Ann Rutledge is a source of continuing debate. Whether Lincoln's love for her was a magnified product of his well-known melancholy or an actual truth may never be known. In any case, a little known young woman from Illinois will forever be bound up with the president's memory, so much so that Amtrak operates a train with her name.

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★ Amtrak - ''Illinois Service''

★ Amtrak - ''Missouri Routes''