🇺🇸 Operator
Train routes operated by Amtrak · NCDOT
2 routes · classic 2
Amtrak · NCDOT runs 2 of the routes in the World Train Map atlas, 1,411 km of railway across 1 country. The longest is the Carolinian at 1,133 km; the fastest is the Carolinian, running up to 201 km/h; the oldest line it runs over here opened in 1990.
The company itself dates to 1971, filed on Wikidata as a railway company. What this page says about the company comes from Amtrak · NCDOT's own Wikidata item, checked against the countries its routes here actually cross before any of it is used; everything about the railway is counted from this atlas. Official site ↗ · Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata Q23239 ↗
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- 2
- Total length
- 1,411 km
- Countries
- United States
- Fastest
- Carolinian · 201 km/h
- Longest
- Carolinian · 1,133 km
- Oldest line here
- 1990
- Company founded
- 1971
- Type
- railway company
Classic (2)
- Carolinian
At 704 miles the longest state-supported route in the Amtrak system, swapping its electric locomotive for a diesel at Washington.
Wikipedia ↗ - Piedmont
North Carolina’s home-grown corridor: the state owns the trains, a fleet of rebuilt 1960s streamliner cars, running four round trips a day.
Wikipedia ↗
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
How many train routes does Amtrak · NCDOT run?
2 of the routes in this atlas are Amtrak · NCDOT services, covering 1,411 km across 1 country (United States). That is what this atlas draws, not the operator's whole network — a national railway runs thousands of local services no map of notable journeys would list.
What is the fastest Amtrak · NCDOT train?
The Carolinian, New York to Charlotte, at up to 201 km/h. Its fastest scheduled run takes 13 h 31 min over 1,133 km.
Does Amtrak · NCDOT run night trains?
Not in this atlas. All 2 Amtrak · NCDOT routes listed here are daytime services.
When was Amtrak · NCDOT founded?
Wikidata records the company's inception as 1971, and files it as a railway company. The oldest railway it runs over in this atlas opened in 1990 — the line and the company are rarely the same age, and this page dates both.
Countries Amtrak · NCDOT runs in
- 🇺🇸 Train routes in United States 62 routes
Other operators in United States
- Amtrak 24 routes
- Alaska Railroad 3 routes