Classic route
Amtrak Cascades
Vancouver → Eugene · Canada · United States
Amtrak Cascades in pictures
Photographs by their authors, hosted on Wikimedia Commons · tap through for the licence
- Distance
- 752 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 11 h
- Average speed
- 68 km/h
- Top speed
- 127 km/h
- Operator
- Amtrak / WSDOT & ODOT
- Train
- Siemens Airo (from 2026)
- Countries
- Canada, United States
- In service since
- 1998
- Riders per year
- ≈ 800k
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Salish Sea beaches, Puget Sound ferries and Willamette farmland: the Pacific Northwest’s green corridor train, re-equipping with new Airo sets in 2026.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 10322759 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 31 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 10 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: the railway’s own site — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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