[2] The Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company constructed the train's streamlined coaches to its lightweight Train-X design.

[2] The train contained the locomotive and nine short all-aluminum coaches that were articulated together.

[4] The train, numbered 421 southwest-bound and 422 northeast-bound on the timetable,[4] was an attempt by the New York Central to modernize intrastate rail travel in Ohio and lure people out of their cars.

[2] As a result, the train's name (Ohio-Xplorer or Xplorer) did not appear on the railroad's October 27, 1957, timetable.

After a long period of storage in South Carolina, the train and locomotive were scrapped around 1970.