The new service departed Grand Central Terminal at 3 PM, just after the 20th Century Limited, with a scheduled arrival in Cincinnati of 9:30 AM the following morning.

[1] In 1941 the Ohio State Limited began receiving lightweight streamlined equipment, becoming part of the NYC's famed "Great Steel Fleet."

[3]: 31 By 1960 the eastbound trip of train at Buffalo picked up coaches and sleeping cars from the NYC's #376, from Toronto, Ontario for continuous service to New York City.

[4] In 1962 the Ohio State Limited was one of several NYC trains to receive the new slumbercoach economy sleeping cars in a failed attempt to revive flagging business.

These were stops at sizable locales on the route west:[8] Media related to Ohio State Limited at Wikimedia Commons