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Scheduled Service Time

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Anyone want to collaborate on adding a column with scheduled service time to this table? Theblindsage (talk) 21:44, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Untitled

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There are some trains that were listed on other websites for which I cannot find any corraborating info. I'm going to place these here until further info/confirmation is found. Please remove items from list that you know are not valid Amtrak Routes.

  • Encore (Midwest?)
  • Gulf Wind (Was an L&N Train)
  • Indiana Connection
  • Lake Shore (NOT LAKE SHORE LIMITED) VIA Montreal, QC-Toronto, ON Montreal - Toronto
  • La Salle CN; VIA Chicago, IL-Toronto, ON;Sarnia, ON-Montreal, QC
  • Marquette (Show the Pere Marquette RR Operated this Train Chicago, IL-Grand Rapids, MI; Amtrak now had the Pere Marquette)
  • South Breeze
  • Spirit of America
  • Texan
  • Weekender
  • West Virginian
  • Willamette Valley (Oregon)
  • Wishbone


[1] shows the Lake Shore as the old name for the Lake Shore Limited. The 1991 Trains article agrees. That timetable also shows the West Virginian. --SPUI (talk) 10:51, 2 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I've gone through a bunch of info and added start and end dates for most of the trains outside the corridors (Northeast, Empire, Keystone, Hiawatha and Cascade). User:SPUI/Amtrak shite has some compiled info. --SPUI (talk) 19:14, 12 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

By number

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Extended content

1-99

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Present use Former uses
1 Sunset Limited November 14, 1971 - present
2
3 Southwest Chief Super Chief/El Capitan; Super Chief; Southwest Limited; Southwest Chief November 14, 1971 - present
4
5 California Zephyr City of San Francisco/Denver Zephyr; San Francisco Zephyr; California Zephyr November 14, 1971 - present
6
7 Empire Builder November 14, 1971 - present
8
9 North Coast Hiawatha/Twin Cities Hiawatha; North Star November 14, 1971 - ?
10
11 Coast Starlight November 14, 1971 - present
12 Coast Daylight November 14, 1971 - ?
Fast Mail
13 Coast Daylight November 14, 1971 - ?
Fast Mail
14 Coast Starlight November 14, 1971 - present
15 Texas Chief; Lone Star November 14, 1971 - October 1, 1979
National Chief
16
17
18
19 Crescent
20
21 Texas Eagle Inter-American; Eagle
22
23 Inter-American (Houston section)
Gulf Coast Limited
24
25 Pioneer
26
27 Empire Builder (Portland section)
28
29 Capitol Limited
30 National Limited November 14, 1971 - ?
31 National Limited November 14, 1971 - ?
32
33
34
35 Desert Wind
36
37
38
39
40 Broadway Limited; Three Rivers November 14, 1971 - March 7, 2005
41
42 Pennsylvanian Keystone November 14, 1971 - ?
Valley Forge [2]
43
44 Big Apple [3]
45 Susquehanna [4]
46 Pennsylvanian [5]
Skyline Connection
47
48 Lake Shore Limited
49
50 Cardinal James Whitcomb Riley/George Washington; Cardinal November 14, 1971 - present
51
52 Auto Train Floridian November 14, 1971 - ?
53
54 Vermonter Mountaineer
55
56
57
58 City of New Orleans Panama Limited; City of New Orleans November 14, 1971 - present
59
60 [[Montrealer (Amtrak)|Montrealer]]
61 Lake Shore November 14, 1971 - ?
Montrealer]]
62 Lake Shore November 14, 1971 - ?
63 Maple Leaf
64
65
66 Night Owl; Twilight Shoreliner [6]
67
68 Adirondack
69
70 New York-Buffalo November 14, 1971 - ?
71
72 New York-Buffalo November 14, 1971 - ?
73 Piedmont New York-Buffalo November 14, 1971 - ?
74
75 New York-Buffalo November 14, 1971 - ?
76 Twilight Shoreliner [7]
77
78
79 Carolinian
80
81 Silver Star (Tampa section) November 14, 1971 - ?
82
83 Silver Meteor November 14, 1971 - ?
84
85 Champion November 14, 1971 - ?
Virginian
86
87 Silver Meteor (Tampa section)
88
89 Palmetto Silver Palm
90
91 Silver Star November 14, 1971 - present
92
93 Floridian (Miami section)
Tidewater
94 Floridian (Miami section)
Old Dominion
95 Old Dominion
96 Tidewater
97 Silver Meteor
98
99

100-199

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Present use Former uses
195 Mount Rainier November 14, 1971 - ?
196
197
198 Mount Rainier November 14, 1971 - ?
199

200-299

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Present use Former uses
230 Empire Service
231
232
233
234
235
236
237
238
239
240
241
242
243
244
245
246
247
248
249
250
251
252
253
254
255
256
257
258
259
260
261
262
263
264
265
266
267
268
269
270
271
272
273
274
275
276
277
278
279
280
281
282
283
284
285
286
287
288
289
290 Ethan Allen Express
291
292
293
294
295
296
297
298
299

300-399

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Present use Former uses
300 State House
301 Prairie State November 14, 1971 - ?
Kansas City Mule
302 Abraham Lincoln November 14, 1971 - ?
State House
303 Ann Rutledge
304 Prairie State November 14, 1971 - ?
305 State House
306 St. Louis Mule
307
308
309
310
311 Kansas City Mule Loop
312 Loop
313 Ann Rutledge
314
315
316 St. Louis Mule
317 Hoosier State
318
319
320 Prairie State November 14, 1971 - ?
321 Chicago-Milwaukee November 14, 1971 - ?
Eagle
Texas Eagle
322
323 Ann Rutledge Abraham Lincoln November 14, 1971 - ?
324 Chicago-Milwaukee November 14, 1971 - ?
325
326 Abraham Lincoln November 14, 1971 - ?
327
328
329 Hiawatha Prairie State November 14, 1971 - ?
330
331
332
333
334
335
336
337
338
339
340
341
342
343 Lake Country Limited
344
345
346 Illinois Zephyr
347 Illinois Zephyr November 14, 1971 - present
348
349
350 Wolverine Wolverine
351
352 Lake Cities
353
354 Twilight Limited
355
356 Wolverine
357
358 River Cities
359
360 Wolverine November 14, 1971 - ?
361
362 St. Clair November 14, 1971 - ?
363
364 Blue Water Blue Water Limited; International [8]
365
366 International [9]
367
368
369
370 Pere Marquette
371
372
373 Pere Marquette
374
375
376
377
378
379
380
381
382
383
384
385
386
387
388
389
390 Illini November 14, 1971 - ?
391 Illini Shawnee November 14, 1971 - ?
392
393 Illini November 14, 1971 - ?
394 Campus November 14, 1971 - ?
395
396
397
398
399

400-499

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Present use Former uses
412 Fast Mail
421 Texas Eagle (Los Angeles section)
422
448 Lake Shore Limited (Boston section)
449

500-599

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Present use Former uses
500 Amtrak Cascades
501
502
503
504
505
506
507
508
509
510
511
512
513
514
515
516
517
518 Capitol Corridor
519 Gulf Breeze
520
521 Texas Eagle (Houston section)
522
523
524
525
526
527
528
529
530
531
532
533
534
535
536
537
538
539
540
541
542
543
544
545
546
547
548
549
550
551
552
553
554
555
556
557
558
559
560
561
562 Pacific Surfliner
563
564
565
566
567
568
569 Orange County Commuter
570
571
572
573
574
575
576
577
578
579
580
581
582 Orange County Commuter
583
584
585
586
587
588
589
590
591
592
593
594
595
596
597
598
599

600-699

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Present use Former uses
600
601 Keystone Service
602
603
604
605
606
607
608
609
610
611
612
613
614
615
616
617
618
619
620
621
622
623
624
625
626
627
628
629
630
631
632
633
634
635
636
637
638
639
640 West Virginian November 14, 1971 - ?
641
642
643
644
645
646
647
648
649
650
651
652
653 Atlantic City Express
654
655
656
657
658
659
660
661 Atlantic City Express
662
663
664
665
666
680 Downeaster
681
682 Atlantic City Express
683
684
685 Atlantic City Express
686
687
688
689
690
691
692
693 Atlantic City Express
694
695
696 Atlantic City Express
697
698
699

700-799

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Present use Former uses
700
701 San Joaquins
702
703
704
705
706
707
708
709
710
711
712
713
714
715
716
717
718
719
720 Capitol Corridor
721
722
723
724
725
726
727
728
729
730
731
732
733
734
735
736
737
738
739
740
741
742
743
744
745
746
747
748
749
750 Cascadia; Amtrak Cascades [10]
751
752 Mount Adams
753
754 Amtrak Cascades [11]
755
756
757
758
759
760 Mount Baker International; Amtrak Cascades [12]
761 Arrowhead
762
763 Pacific Surfliner Arrowhead
764
765
766 Arrowhead
767
768
769
770
771
772
773
774
775 San Diegan November 14, 1971 - ?
776
777
778
779
780
781
782
783
784
785
786
787
788
789
790
791
792
793 Pacific International
794
795 Mount Rainier
796
797 Mount Rainier
Puget Sound
798 Puget Sound
799

800-899

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Present use Former uses
821 Heartland Flyer Eagle
822
850 Kentucky Cardinal
851

I have a summary of the ownership of Amtrak's 21,767 route miles here-

http://www.trains.com/TRC/CS/forums/569629/ShowPost.aspx

Dale

nanaimo73@shaw.ca

New Orleans East?

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A 1986 LADOTD map shows four Amtrak routes, all from New Orleans - to Slidell via Southern, Hammond via ICG, Schriever, New Iberia, Lafayette and Lake Charles via SP and New Orleans East via Seaboard. Does anyone know details on the New Orleans East route? Is this referring to the Gulf Coast Limited (and thus in error, as that was discontinued in January 1985)? Or did Amtrak operate a commuter train there? --SPUI (T - C - RFC) 07:33, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Trains that exist but lost their number

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There are some trains listed, especially on the Northeast Corridor, that lost their names but still exist. Those need to be marked, but how to do that in an overly-long article? --plaws 21:36, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ridership per mile?

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Means nothing. What you want is revenue passenger miles since, particularly on longer routes, seats can turn over multiple times. --plaws (talk) 21:22, 3 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Whoa

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Quite long passenger routes you have, anything over 500 miles would probably be classed as long-distance here if such a class would be regulated. 85.76.37.10 (talk) 18:35, 23 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keystone Corridor

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I've separated the Keystone Corridor section into two tables - the Harrisburg-Philadelphia local services that are now under the Keystone Service brand, and Pittsburgh-Philadelphia services (now only the Pennsylvanian) that general didn't provide local service east of Harrisburg. I think this is more clear, but could be convinced otherwise. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 18:42, 25 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

  • I like it, but we now have some duplication between this section and Northeast–Midwest. They could probably be separated based on whether the service continued west of Pittsburgh, though the Pennsylvanian's brief extension to Chicago poses a problem. Mackensen (talk) 02:24, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I 'm afraid there's always going to be some degree of duplication no matter how you divide it up. Even discounting the proper long-distance trains that run express on the NEC, you have a number of trains that offer local service on the NEC and also go elsewhere. Carolinian, Vermonter, pretty much every NYC-HBG train that's existed, the Virginia extensions of Northeast Regionals, etc. I think you end up having to make some really awkward judgement calls about what list to put things on if you try to restrict it to exactly one listing of each train. What about that Downington Metroliner that ran 80% of its route miles on the NEC? What if the Lynchburger gets extended to Bristol as proposed - it would be almost as long as the Carolinian, but still may remain under the Northeast Regional brand. Amtrak seems to always have an exception for every rule. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 17:04, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Valley Flyer

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Should the Valley Flyer trains be listed separately? Or should we change the length of the Hartford Line trains to 98 miles to include the two round trips to Greenfield, MA?Mirza Ahmed (talk) 07:38, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keystone route in 1972

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In the January 1972 Amtrak route guide*, there is a route called "Keystone" pg 52, top row, train #43, and pg 53, bottom row, train #42. It's a New York to Philly route. I'm mapping route changes based on the printed schedules, so I have no further info than what appears there. Not comfortable just stuffing it into the chart.

  • From the Museaum of Railway Timetables

Lindaniel (talk) 23:52, 1 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Lindaniel: Thanks for the tip. Looks like we already have it listed - see the second chart under #Keystone Corridor. Cheers, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 01:08, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Pi.1415926535: The earliest in that chart is 1980. The Keystone I reference is in 1972. I'm now working on 1973 guides, and this Keystone has only been listed in the January 1972 Amtrak guide. (oops, forgot to sign in Lindaniel) 74.76.173.30 (talk) 03:13, 3 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I think you're looking at the first chart. The 1972 iteration of the Keystone is in the second chart, right under the Duquesne and Fort Pitt. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 03:26, 3 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I did further searching in my stuff, and found ...that your answer above is "my" Keystone. Searched on Duquesne, and there it was. I'm glad I didn't try amending the page before asking about it. Thank you for your patience. Lindaniel (talk) 22:27, 6 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Colors in table

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There are multiple dates in the various tables which have a red background, but as far as I can tell there's nothing in the article itself that explains what this use of color means. This seems inconsistent with MOS:COLOR's requirement that colored backgrounds should not be used except in conjunction with accessibility tools or footnotes to make it clear what the use of color is meant to symbolize. Rfwang4 (talk) 21:06, 10 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That's odd. It seems to me that the colors indicate either a) the route was operated by Amtrak on May 1, 1971, the date Amtrak began operations, or b) the route is currently active. I don't understand why both cases would use the same color. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 21:13, 10 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Trainsandotherthings: That appears to have been around since 2005, could use an update perhaps. Cards84664 21:16, 10 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, 2005, when VHS was still a thing and I was in elementary school. That was probably advanced technique back in 2005 to have the colors like that. I'd recommend changing the present services color from red to green. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 21:31, 10 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I realize that @Trainsandotherthings have our differences over station notability but there's no need to make some us feel older than we are :). Anyway, the red background denoted (for the start date) trains that Amtrak assumed control over on May 1, 1971 and (for the end date) trains that are still running. At one time, I believe, the reporting mark of the pre-Amtrak carrier was also indicated in the start date. I agree that in its current form it adds nothing. If a color key is needed or useful, we should do something similar to what's implemented at List of MBTA subway stations. Mackensen (talk) 22:36, 10 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Edit: yes they were, see [13] for example. Mackensen (talk) 22:39, 10 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

How's this grab folks? Mackensen (talk)

Sure, and maybe add a new column for predecessor operator, similar to Conrail#Passenger rail operations. Cards84664 23:26, 10 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Name Indicates Amtrak's name for the train; or in some cases the pre-Amtrak name for trains operating prior to November 14, 1971
Route The endpoints and major intermediate stops for the train. Changes to terminal stations within the same city, as well as route changes that did not modify the endpoint cities, are not shown.
Service began The date Amtrak began operating the train
Service ended The date Amtrak ceased operating the train
Notes Additional information concerning name changes and prior operators
Trains conveyed to Amtrak either on May 1, 1971, or afterward
Trains that are currently operating
†‡ Trains conveyed to Amtrak that are currently operating