Night trains
Night trains from New York
4 sleeper routes · United States
4 night trains serve New York in the World Train Map atlas, with sleeper routes to Miami, New Orleans, Chicago. The longest is the Silver Meteor at 2,235 km (≈ 28 h); the oldest service on this list has run since 1897. Board in the evening, wake up 2,235 km closer. Every route below links to its full story and the world railway map.
- Silver Meteor
The Seaboard streamliner that opened Florida’s diesel age in 1939: 28 hours from Penn Station to palm-lined Miami, still running nightly.
Wikipedia ↗ - Crescent
Heir to the 1925 Crescent Limited. Manhattan to the French Quarter past Blue Ridge foothills, midnight Atlanta and a dawn crawl across Lake Pontchartrain.
Wikipedia ↗ - Cardinal
Amtrak’s slowest way to Chicago and its prettiest: tri-weekly through Virginia horse country and the whitewater canyons of the New River Gorge.
Wikipedia ↗ - Lake Shore Limited
Heir to the New York Central’s 1897 Water Level Route: up the Hudson at dusk, along Lake Erie by night, into Chicago with morning coffee.
Wikipedia ↗
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
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