Carolinian

At 704 miles the longest state-supported route in the Amtrak system, swapping its electric locomotive for a diesel at Washington.

Stations

1. 0 kmNew York Penn Station
2. 16 kmNewark Penn Station
3. 93 kmTrenton
4. 145 kmPhiladelphia 30th Street Station
5. 186 kmWilmington
6. 296 kmBaltimore Penn Station
7. Show 13 more stations

   1. 361 kmWashington Union Station
   2. 374 kmAlexandria
   3. 416 kmQuantico
   4. 447 kmFredericksburg
   5. 535 kmRichmond Staples Mill Road
   6. 581 kmPetersburg
   7. 738 kmRocky Mount
   8. 764 kmWilson
   9. 805 kmSelma
   10. 850 kmRaleigh
   11. 863 kmCary
   12. 892 kmDurham
   13. 945 kmBurlington
8. 979 kmGreensboro
9. 1,004 kmHigh Point
10. 1,059 kmSalisbury
11. 1,084 kmKannapolis
12. 1,127 kmCharlotte

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.

How this line was checked

• Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1900976 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 40 m of them
• Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 12 m from it
• Checked against the running timetable via Amtrak: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of the Carolinian to New York
• 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 Carolinian?

The Carolinian runs 1,133 km from New York to Charlotte.

How long does the Carolinian take?

The fastest scheduled journey is 13 h 31 min for the 1,133 km. That is an average of 84 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 201 km/h.

Who runs the Carolinian?

Amtrak and NCDOT, with Amfleet, Siemens ACS-64.

How old is the Carolinian?

The line has been in service since 1990. 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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