Classic route
Maple Leaf
New York → Toronto · United States · Canada
- Distance
- 875 km
- Fastest time
- 12 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 70 km/h
- Top speed
- 177 km/h
- Operator
- Amtrak · VIA Rail
- Train
- Amfleet · GE P32AC-DM
- Countries
- United States, Canada
- In service since
- 1981
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The only Amtrak–VIA joint train: passengers clear customs at Niagara Falls, where the line crosses the gorge beside the thundering cataract.
How this line was checked
- The 746 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 4467190 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 29 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 95.2% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 11 m); the longest stretch away from it is 19 km
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits 0.4 km from the shape of VIA Rail
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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