Classic route
Silver Star
New York → Miami · United States
Silver Star in pictures
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- Distance
- 2,410 km
- Fastest time
- 31 h
- Average speed
- 78 km/h
- Top speed
- 201 km/h
- Operator
- Amtrak
- Train
- Amtrak Viewliner & Amfleet, P42 diesel
- Countries
- United States
- In service since
- 1947
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Amtrak’s daily New York–Miami run via the Carolinas and a loop through Tampa: the East Coast’s classic snowbird train down to the Florida sun.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1897938 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 40 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 11 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Amtrak schedules — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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