Night train route
Lake Shore Limited
New York → Chicago · United States
Lake Shore Limited in pictures
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- Distance
- 1,543 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 19 h
- Average speed
- 81 km/h
- Top speed
- 177 km/h
- Operator
- Amtrak
- Train
- Amtrak Viewliner II
- Countries
- United States
- In service since
- 1897
- Riders per year
- ≈ 350k
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Heir to the New York Central’s 1897 Water Level Route: up the Hudson at dusk, along Lake Erie by night, into Chicago with morning coffee.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1358974 — 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 49
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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