Night train route
City of New Orleans
Chicago → New Orleans · United States
City of New Orleans in pictures
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- Distance
- 1,500 km
- Fastest time
- 19 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 77 km/h
- Top speed
- 127 km/h
- Operator
- Amtrak
- Train
- Superliner
- Countries
- United States
- In service since
- 1947
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Immortalized in Steve Goodman’s 1971 song: overnight down the Mississippi Delta past Memphis, Yazoo City and the Louisiana bayous.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 8436201 — 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 5 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of 59
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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