Amtrak operates the following intercity and long-distance passenger train routes.
Current routes
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Amtrak service is divided into three categories of routes: Northeast Corridor routes, state-supported routes, and long distance routes. These types indicate how the service is funded.
Northeast Corridor service is directly subsidized by federal appropriations. Federally-supported long distance services are subsidized by appropriations under a separate line item from the NEC in federal budgets. Additionally, Amtrak partners with 18 states to provide additional short- and medium-distance services desired by those states. They are subsidized by periodic payments to Amtrak from the state partners.
*Maple Leaf is serviced by Via Rail while in Canadian territory
Full listing
This list included current and discontinued routes.
Note that intercity trains were operated after 1971 by the Alaska Railroad, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad, Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, Georgia Railroad, Reading Company, and Southern Railway. The Southern Railway and D&RGW routes were taken over by Amtrak in 1979 and 1983 respectively. In addition, the Canadian Pacific Railway's Atlantic, taken over by Via Rail in 1978, crossed northern Maine.
Northeast Corridor
Most Northeast Corridor trains were renamed NortheastDirect in the late 1990s, then Acela Regional and later just Regional. Currently most of the below named trains are called Northeast Regional. Some of these train names were changed prior to the late 1990s.
Empire Corridor
Trains operating over the Empire Corridor (the former New York Central Railroad Water Level Route) are now collectively known as the Empire Service. Individual names first appeared on the May 19, 1974, timetable.
Keystone Corridor
Trains providing local intercity service on the Philadelphia to Harrisburg Main Line (the former Pennsylvania Railroad main line) to Harrisburg are now collectively known as the Keystone Service, a name originally introduced in 1981. From 1990 to 2006, individual trains were listed in timetables as Keystone - a name also applied to two different trains in 1971-72 and 1979-81. This table includes only trains that did not operate west of Harrisburg.
This listing includes trains operating over the full length of the Keystone Corridor to Pittsburgh. Some trains have offered connections at 30th Street Station while others only stopped at North Philadelphia; most have not offered local service east of Harrisburg. Since 2005, the Pennsylvanian is the only train to operate between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh.
Northeast
South
Northeastâ€"Midwest
Midwest
Midwestâ€"West
West
See also
- List of North American named passenger trains
Notes
References
- Goldberg, Bruce (1981). Amtrak--the first decade. Silver Spring, MD: Alan Books. OCLCÂ 7925036.Â
- Sanders, Craig (2006). Amtrak in the Heartland. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBNÂ 0-253-34705-X.Â
- "Trainman" at Everything2.com Discontinued Amtrak Trains
- Matthew J. Melzer and Jon-Michael Noe Retired Amtrak Routes on Trainweb.com
- Craig Sanders, Ph.D. and Mark D. Bej, M.D. Amtrak's First Trains â€" 5/1/1971
- Amtrak Northeast Direct Routes and Amtrak Route Names & Numbers Cross-Reference
- November 14, 1971, timetable
- Schafer, Mike. Amtrak's atlas, Trains June 1991
Trains prior to Amtrak
- Edmonson, Harold A. Passenger Trains on the Eve of Amtrak 4/30/1971, Journey to Amtrak (Kalmbach Publishing, 1972) ISBNÂ 0-89024-023-X
- Solomon, Brian (2004). Amtrak. Saint Paul, Minnesota: MBI. ISBNÂ 0-760-31765-8.Â
- List of Named Passenger Trains (Association of American Railroads, 1952)
- New Carl Sandburg service
- Timeline of Hiawatha Corridor Timetables
