Night train route
Auto Train
Lorton → Sanford · United States
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
- Checked against the running timetable via Amtrak: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of the Auto Train to Sanford
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Auto Train?
The Auto Train runs 1,376 km from Lorton to Sanford.
How long does the Auto Train take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 17 h 30 min for the 1,376 km. That is an average of 79 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 127 km/h.
Who runs the Auto Train?
Amtrak, with Superliner.
How old is the Auto Train?
The line has been in service since 1971. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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