Classic route
Piedmont
Raleigh → Charlotte · United States
Piedmont in pictures
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- Distance
- 278 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 10 min
- Average speed
- 88 km/h
- Top speed
- 127 km/h
- Operator
- Amtrak · NCDOT
- Train
- NCDOT F59PH · rebuilt streamliner cars
- Countries
- United States
- In service since
- 1995
- Riders per year
- ≈ 300k
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
North Carolina’s home-grown corridor: the state owns the trains, a fleet of rebuilt 1960s streamliner cars, running four round trips a day.
How this line was checked
- The 277 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 1901007 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 7 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Amtrak · NCDOT — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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