Night train route
Silver Meteor
New York → Miami · United States
Silver Meteor in pictures
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- Distance
- 2,235 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 28 h
- Average speed
- 80 km/h
- Top speed
- 201 km/h
- Train
- Amtrak Viewliner II
- Countries
- United States
- In service since
- 1939
- Riders per year
- ≈ 300k
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Seaboard streamliner that opened Florida’s diesel age in 1939: 28 hours from Penn Station to palm-lined Miami, still running nightly.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1590286 — 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 5 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Amtrak: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of the Silver Meteor to Miami
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
How long is the Silver Meteor?
The Silver Meteor runs 2,235 km from New York to Miami.
How long does the Silver Meteor take?
The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 28 h for the 2,235 km. That is an average of 80 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 201 km/h.
Who runs the Silver Meteor?
Amtrak.
How old is the Silver Meteor?
The line has been in service since 1939. 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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