Cardinal

Amtrak’s slowest way to Chicago and its prettiest: tri-weekly through Virginia horse country and the whitewater canyons of the New River Gorge.

Stations

1. 0 kmNew York Penn Station +12
2. 16 kmNewark Penn Station +8
3. 93 kmTrenton +7
4. 145 kmPhiladelphia 30th Street Station +8
5. 186 kmWilmington +7
6. 296 kmBaltimore Penn Station +7
7. Show 21 more stations

   1. 360 kmWashington Union Station +7
   2. 373 kmAlexandria +4
   3. 412 kmManassas +1
   4. 468 kmCulpeper +1
   5. 544 kmCharlottesville +1
   6. 606 kmStaunton
   7. 696 kmClifton Forge
   8. 750 kmWhite Sulphur Springs
   9. 787 kmAlderson
   10. 820 kmHinton
   11. 856 kmPrince
   12. 874 kmThurmond
   13. 932 kmMontgomery
   14. 973 kmCharleston
   15. 1,055 kmHuntington
   16. 1,079 kmAshland
   17. 1,126 kmSouth Shore-South Portsmouth
   18. 1,212 kmMaysville
   19. 1,315 kmCincinnati Union Terminal
   20. 1,420 kmConnersville
   21. 1,512 kmIndianapolis Union Station
8. 1,589 kmCrawfordsville
9. 1,632 kmLafayette
10. 1,709 kmRensselaer
11. 1,781 kmDyer
12. 1,826 kmChicago Union Station +11

The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.

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
• Checked against the running timetable via Amtrak: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of the Cardinal to Chicago
• 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 Cardinal?

The Cardinal runs 1,844 km from New York to Chicago.

How long does the Cardinal take?

The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 28 h for the 1,844 km. That is an average of 66 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 201 km/h.

Who runs the Cardinal?

Amtrak.

How old is the Cardinal?

The line has been in service since 1977. 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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