<Li> July 1959: The 20th Century Limited is prominently featured in the MGM film North by Northwest starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason . </Li> <Li> December 3, 1967: The 20th Century Limited is discontinued just before the merger of the New York Central and the Pennsylvania Railroad that formed the Penn Central . </Li> <Li> August 26, 1999: The United States Postal Service issues 33 - cent All Aboard! 20th Century American Trains commemorative stamps featuring five celebrated American passenger trains from the 1930s and 1940s . One of the five stamps features an image of a streamlined J - 3a steam locomotive leading the 20th Century Limited out of the Chicago railyards on its way to New York, with the Board of Trade Building in the background . </Li> <P> Eastbound train #38--Advance 20th Century Limited, on February 7, 1930; Sampled at Chicago, Illinois . </P>

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