Night train route
Crescent
New York → New Orleans · United States
Crescent in pictures
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- Distance
- 2,216 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 30 h
- Average speed
- 74 km/h
- Top speed
- 201 km/h
- Operator
- Amtrak
- Train
- Amtrak Viewliner II
- Countries
- United States
- In service since
- 1925
- Riders per year
- ≈ 300k
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Heir to the 1925 Crescent Limited. Manhattan to the French Quarter past Blue Ridge foothills, midnight Atlanta and a dawn crawl across Lake Pontchartrain.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1809808 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 117 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.7% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 32 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3 km
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of 19
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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