Lake Shore Limited

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.

Stations

1. 0 kmNew York Penn Station
2. 52 kmCroton-Harmon
3. 117 kmPoughkeepsie
4. 142 kmRhinecliff
5. 227 kmAlbany-Rensselaer
6. 255 kmSchenectady
7. Show 9 more stations

   1. 380 kmUtica
   2. 467 kmSyracuse
   3. 594 kmRochester
   4. 692 kmBuffalo-Depew
   5. 841 kmErie
   6. 993 kmCleveland
   7. 1,033 kmElyria
   8. 1,089 kmSandusky
   9. 1,165 kmToledo
8. 1,251 kmBryan
9. 1,291 kmWaterloo
10. 1,378 kmElkhart
11. 1,405 kmSouth Bend
12. 1,540 kmChicago Union Station

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 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 Amtrak: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of the Lake Shore Limited to New York
• 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 Lake Shore Limited?

The Lake Shore Limited runs 1,543 km from New York to Chicago.

How long does the Lake Shore Limited take?

The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 19 h for the 1,543 km. That is an average of 81 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 177 km/h.

Who runs the Lake Shore Limited?

Amtrak.

How old is the Lake Shore Limited?

The line has been in service since 1897. 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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