Night train route
Auto Train
Lorton → Sanford · United States
Auto Train in pictures
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- Distance
- 1,376 km
- Fastest time
- 17 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 79 km/h
- Top speed
- 127 km/h
- Operator
- Amtrak
- Train
- Superliner
- Countries
- United States
- In service since
- 1971
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Cars and motorcycles ride in autoracks behind the sleepers: often the world’s longest passenger train, nonstop Virginia to Florida.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 3517701 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Amtrak schedules — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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