Classic route
Hiawatha
Chicago → Milwaukee · United States
The Midwest’s busiest corridor: seven round trips a day linking downtown Chicago and Milwaukee in about 90 minutes.
- Distance
- 138 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 29 min
- Average speed
- 93 km/h
- Top speed
- 127 km/h
Stations
- 0 kmChicago Union Station +14
- 28 kmGlenview +3
- 102 kmSturtevant +1
- 127 kmMilwaukee Airport +1
- 138 kmMilwaukee +3
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 1638760: 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 2 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Amtrak: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of the Hiawatha Service to Milwaukee
- 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 Hiawatha?
The Hiawatha runs 138 km from Chicago to Milwaukee.
How long does the Hiawatha take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 1 h 29 min for the 138 km. That is an average of 93 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 127 km/h.
Who runs the Hiawatha?
Amtrak, IDOT and WisDOT, with Horizon, Siemens Charger.
How old is the Hiawatha?
The line has been in service since 1971. 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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