Crescent

Heir to the 1925 Crescent Limited. Manhattan to the French Quarter past Blue Ridge foothills, midnight Atlanta and a dawn crawl across Lake Pontchartrain.

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. 295 kmBaltimore Penn Station
7. Show 22 more stations

   1. 359 kmWashington Union Station
   2. 373 kmAlexandria
   3. 411 kmManassas
   4. 467 kmCulpeper
   5. 539 kmCharlottesville
   6. 635 kmLynchburg
   7. 736 kmDanville
   8. 812 kmGreensboro
   9. 836 kmHigh Point
   10. 892 kmSalisbury
   11. 959 kmCharlotte
   12. 994 kmGastonia
   13. 1,081 kmSpartanburg
   14. 1,131 kmGreenville
   15. 1,179 kmClemson
   16. 1,231 kmToccoa
   17. 1,290 kmGainesville
   18. 1,368 kmAtlanta
   19. 1,527 kmAnniston
   20. 1,629 kmBirmingham
   21. 1,717 kmTuscaloosa
   22. 1,872 kmMeridian
8. 1,963 kmLaurel
9. 2,009 kmHattiesburg
10. 2,110 kmPicayune
11. 2,140 kmSlidell
12. 2,196 kmNew Orleans

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 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 Amtrak: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of the Crescent to New Orleans
• 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 Crescent?

The Crescent runs 2,216 km from New York to New Orleans.

How long does the Crescent take?

The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 30 h for the 2,216 km. That is an average of 74 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 201 km/h.

Who runs the Crescent?

Amtrak.

How old is the Crescent?

The line has been in service since 1925. 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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