Classic route
Pere Marquette
Grand Rapids → Chicago · United States
Amtrak’s Michigan train from Grand Rapids by Holland and Bangor to St. Joseph on Lake Michigan, then round the south of the lake to Chicago; named after the Pere Marquette Railway’s trains, it has run since 1984.
- Distance
- 283 km
- Fastest time
- 4 h 4 min
- Average speed
- 70 km/h
Stations
- 0 kmGrand Rapids
- 40 kmHolland
- 97 kmBangor
- 141 kmSaint Joseph
- 284 kmChicago Union Station +14
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. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 11851451: 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 4 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Amtrak: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of the Pere Marquette to Chicago
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Questions and answers
How long is the Pere Marquette?
The Pere Marquette runs 283 km from Grand Rapids to Chicago.
How long does the Pere Marquette take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 4 h 4 min for the 283 km. That is an average of 70 km/h end to end.
Who runs the Pere Marquette?
Amtrak and MDOT, with Siemens Venture, Charger.
How old is the Pere Marquette?
The line has been in service since 1984. 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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