Classic route
Pennsylvanian
New York → Pittsburgh · United States
- Distance
- 715 km
- Fastest time
- 9 h 15 min
- Average speed
- 77 km/h
- Top speed
- 201 km/h
- Operator
- Amtrak
- Train
- Amfleet · Siemens ACS-64
- Countries
- United States
- In service since
- 1980
- Riders per year
- ≈ 236k
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Sweeps around Horseshoe Curve near Altoona: the 1854 engineering landmark that finally tamed the Allegheny grade.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 4044002 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 62 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.5% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 17 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3.5 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Amtrak schedules — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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