Night train route
Cardinal
New York → Chicago · United States
- Distance
- 1,844 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 28 h
- Average speed
- 66 km/h
- Top speed
- 201 km/h
- Operator
- Amtrak
- Train
- Amtrak Amfleet & Viewliner
- Countries
- United States
- In service since
- 1977
- Riders per year
- ≈ 110k
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Amtrak’s slowest way to Chicago and its prettiest: tri-weekly through Virginia horse country and the whitewater canyons of the New River Gorge.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2807121 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 81 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.6% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 20 m); the longest stretch away from it is 4 km
- 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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