Silver Meteor

The Seaboard streamliner that opened Florida’s diesel age in 1939: 28 hours from Penn Station to palm-lined Miami, still running nightly.

Stations

1. 0 kmNew York Penn Station
2. 16 kmNewark Penn Station
3. 93 kmTrenton
4. 145 kmPhiladelphia 30th Street Station
5. 187 kmWilmington
6. 297 kmBaltimore Penn Station
7. Show 22 more stations

   1. 361 kmWashington Union Station
   2. 374 kmAlexandria
   3. 448 kmFredericksburg
   4. 536 kmRichmond Staples Mill Road
   5. 582 kmPetersburg
   6. 738 kmRocky Mount
   7. 883 kmFayetteville
   8. 1,017 kmFlorence
   9. 1,078 kmKingstree
   10. 1,169 kmCharleston
   11. 1,255 kmYemassee
   12. 1,332 kmSavannah
   13. 1,421 kmJesup
   14. 1,568 kmJacksonville
   15. 1,661 kmPalatka
   16. 1,745 kmDeLand
   17. 1,797 kmWinter Park
   18. 1,807 kmOrlando
   19. 1,833 kmKissimmee
   20. 1,895 kmWinter Haven
   21. 1,961 kmSebring
   22. 2,127 kmWest Palm Beach
8. 2,156 kmDelray Beach
9. 2,173 kmDeerfield Beach
10. 2,195 kmFort Lauderdale
11. 2,207 kmHollywood
12. 2,230 kmMiami

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 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

Questions and answers

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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