What is "washingtonian"

Washingtonian \Wash`ing*to"ni*an\, a.

1. Pertaining to, or characteristic of, George Washington; as, a Washingtonian policy.
   --Lowell.

2. Designating, or pertaining to, a temperance society and movement started in Baltimore in 1840 on the principle of total abstinence. -- n. A member of the Washingtonian Society.

Washingtonian is used to refer to people from the state of Washington (see List of people from Washington) or the greater metropolitan area of Washington, D.C. (see List of people from Washington, D.C.), in the United States.

Washingtonian may also refer to:

• Washingtonian (Amtrak train), a former Amtrak service
• Washingtonian (B&M train), a named passenger train of the Boston and Maine Railroad
• Washingtonian (B&O train), a named passenger train of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in the 1930s–1950s
• Washingtonian (magazine), a cultural magazine in Washington, D.C.
• Washingtonian movement, a 19th-century temperance movement in the United States
• " The Washingtonians" (2007), a short story by Bentley Little
• SS Washingtonian, a cargo ship launched in 1913

The Washingtonian is a monthly magazine distributed in the Washington, D.C. area. It was founded in 1965 by Laughlin Phillips and Robert J. Myers. The magazine describes itself as "The Magazine Washington Lives By". The magazine's core focuses are local feature journalism, guide book–style articles, real estate, and politics.

The Washingtonian was one of two daily American named passenger trains operated by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) during the 1940s–1950s between Baltimore, Maryland and Cleveland, Ohio, via Washington, D. C. and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the last B&O long-haul passenger train to be powered by a steam locomotive from the venerable railroad's namesake city.

Inaugurated on April 27, 1941, the Washingtonian was primarily a daytime train with a morning departure, in contrast to B&O's other train on the route, the Cleveland Night Express. Between Pittsburgh and Cleveland, the Washingtonians cars left B&O rails and were coupled to the Steel King train of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad (P&LE) to Youngstown, Ohio, where the Erie Railroad handled the train to Cleveland.

The Washingtonian was regularly operated with steam locomotives on B&O's Baltimore–Washington, D. C.– Cumberland, Maryland mainline until November 3, 1953, when it was finally assigned diesel locomotives. The diesel-powered, conventionally-equipped Washingtonian was replaced on October 27, 1956, by the faster and more economical Budd Rail Diesel Car (RDC) Daylight Speedliner between Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and Pittsburgh, reducing operating expenses by half. The streamlined Daylight Speedliner's seven-hour schedule on B&O's Baltimore–Pittsburgh route also trimmed almost two hours travel time compared to the Washingtonian.