Classic route
Sunset Limited
New Orleans → Los Angeles · United States
Sunset Limited in pictures
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- Distance
- 3,210 km
- Fastest time
- 46 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 69 km/h
- Top speed
- 127 km/h
- Operator
- Amtrak
- Train
- Superliner
- Countries
- United States
- In service since
- 1894
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
America’s oldest train name, running since 1894: crosses the Pecos River High Bridge and the Chihuahuan Desert three times a week.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 297142 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 59 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.8% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 12 m); the longest stretch away from it is 4 km
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of 1
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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