Classic route
Wolverine
Chicago → Pontiac · United States
- Distance
- 489 km
- Fastest time
- 6 h
- Average speed
- 82 km/h
- Top speed
- 177 km/h
- Operator
- Amtrak · MDOT
- Train
- Siemens Venture · Charger
- Countries
- United States
- In service since
- 1971
- Riders per year
- ≈ 438k
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Hits 110 mph on state-owned track between Kalamazoo and Dearborn: one of the few 100-mph corridors outside the Northeast.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1665342 — 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 4 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Amtrak · MDOT — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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