Classic route
Missouri River Runner
St. Louis → Kansas City · United States
Missouri River Runner in pictures
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- Distance
- 455 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 5 h 40 min
- Average speed
- 80 km/h
- Top speed
- 145 km/h
- Operator
- Amtrak
- Train
- Amtrak Venture cars
- Countries
- United States
- In service since
- 1865
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Twice a day along the wide Missouri: Hermann’s German wine town, the capitol at Jefferson City and ragtime Sedalia between the two big cities.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 4743862 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 33 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 9 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of 319
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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