Pennsylvanian

Sweeps around Horseshoe Curve near Altoona: the 1854 engineering landmark that finally tamed the Allegheny grade.

Stations

1. 0 kmNew York Penn Station
2. 16 kmNewark Penn Station
3. 93 kmTrenton
4. 145 kmPhiladelphia 30th Street Station
5. 174 kmPaoli
6. 186 kmExton
7. Show 6 more stations

   1. 251 kmLancaster
   2. 280 kmElizabethtown
   3. 307 kmHarrisburg
   4. 404 kmLewistown
   5. 462 kmHuntingdon
   6. 494 kmTyrone
8. 516 kmAltoona
9. 576 kmJohnstown
10. 634 kmLatrobe
11. 649 kmGreensburg
12. 698 kmPittsburgh 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 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
• Checked against the running timetable via Amtrak: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of the Pennsylvanian 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 Pennsylvanian?

The Pennsylvanian runs 715 km from New York to Pittsburgh.

How long does the Pennsylvanian take?

The fastest scheduled journey is 9 h 15 min for the 715 km. That is an average of 77 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 201 km/h.

Who runs the Pennsylvanian?

Amtrak, with Amfleet, Siemens ACS-64.

How old is the Pennsylvanian?

The line has been in service since 1980. 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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