Amtrak
Amtrak® operates a nationwide rail network of intercity passenger trains in the contiguous United States, serving more than 500 destinations in 46 states, the District of Columbia and three Canadian provinces on more than 21,400 miles of routes: most of the USA's passenger=regional (medium-distance: intrastate or interstate) trains and all passenger=national (long distance, interstate), overnight, highspeed=* and passenger=international trains. Many states (California, Virginia, Maryland, Missouri, Illinois, Utah, New Mexico, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Florida...) and regional transportation authorities (e.g. Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District) sponsor their own state/regional commuter and intrastate route=trains, some are included in Amtrak (California), some are not (Maryland). Try an OpenPublicTransportMap rendering, which displays route=train relations as train-numbered black lines, including the union of Amtrak routes with state- and regional-sponsored routes. Most of these routes are on Class 4 track (maximum speed 80 MPH). While Acela, on Class 5, 6, 7 or 8 track (90, 110, 125, 160 MPH, respectively) is the only high-speed route which may reach 150 MPH (241 km/h), nearly half of Amtrak trains operate at top speeds of 100 MPH (161 km/h) or greater. In the Passenger column, bold type indicates "higher-speed" service, which include Class 5 (90 MPH) or Class 6 (110 MPH) track.
In North America, "bottom level" (infrastructure) route=tracks relations are omitted, instead skipping to "middle level" (infrastructure) route=railway relations. "Higher level" passenger rail routes like the Amtrak route relations linked here are properly a collection of rail segments, stations/stops and platforms. More complete tagging on underlying infrastructure (track) segments (making up a "named Subdivision") includes accurate, contiguous railway=* elements, with identical name=* and usage=* tags. These are collected into middle level route=railway relations, not bottom level route=tracks relations as OpenRailwayMap suggests. You can improve one or more of the higher level route=train relations below without the following suggestion, but please endeavor to create/review/correct/complete underlying middle level route=railway relations (infrastructure which should contain contiguous, identically named track segments) as you do so.
For example, the Hiawatha Service route=train relation contains all track segments that make up that route, so it is correct to mark here as Complete. But examining this relation's members shows that while some tracks are correctly named "C&M Subdivision," others are missing such name=* (and usage=*) tags. Furthermore, track segments which make up the C&M Subdivision are not (yet) collected into a middle level route=railway + name=C&M Subdivision relation. Please endeavor to identify contiguous rail segments with identical name=* and usage=* tags and collect them into a middle level route=railway "named Subdivision" relation. The higher level route=train relations listed below are important to complete, but so are their underlying middle level infrastructure route=railway relations, too!
Try OpenPublicTransportMap (OPTM): it displays passenger rail in route=train relations. At closer zooms, OPTM also displays route=light_rail, route=subway, route=tram, route=monorail, route=funicular, route=bus, route=trolleybus, route=aerialway and route=ferry with colors similar to OpenRailwayMap (ORM). Please compare and contrast ORM (rail infrastructure) and OPTM (passenger routes) with OSM's Transport layer which rather simply displays "any and all rail" (railway=*), though not disused or abandoned rail, and at closer zooms, route=bus. (Another rail renderer displayed rail-based passenger routes with their colour=* or color=* tag, but is no longer functional).
Amtrak route=train routes are complete to public_transport:version=2 as of 2021-01-16. A convention of right-hand main is assumed, and actual track and platform assignments may differ from what is mapped. Map Your Train Ride! Do you ride a train regularly or work at a train station? If you're sure that a train consistently serves a platform different from what is mapped, feel free to reroute the route=train relation and add the matching public_transport=stop_positions and public_transport=platforms. Alternatively, leave a note on the map or on this page, and someone will help you out.
Even-numbered Amtrak trains generally travel north and east, odd-numbered south and west. Among the exceptions are Pacific Surfliner trains, which use the opposite numbering system inherited from Santa Fe Railway, and some Downeaster and Empire Service trains. All routes are network=Amtrak, except in cases where service is provided jointly by Amtrak and another operator, such as the Maple Leaf train (operated by Canada's VIA Rail west of Niagara Falls), and the Hartford Line (along which Amtrak and ConnDOT coordinate service).
type=route_master | passenger=* | Origin-Destination, ref=* as Train #, type=route | Status and Notes |
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Acela Express® 9796393 ![]() |
high speed | WAS→BOS: 2158;2248;2250;2252;2254;2256 9796293 ![]() 2154 11961674 ![]() 2164 11961673 ![]() 2170 11961672 ![]() WAS→NYP: 2218;2224 11961666 ![]() 2126 11961667 ![]() NYP→BOS: 2168 11961675 ![]() BOS→WAS: 2155;2163;2249;2251;2253;2255;2257;2259 9796352 ![]() 2165 11961671 ![]() 2167 11961670 ![]() NYP→WAS: 2203;2205 11961668 ![]() 2109 11961669 ![]() BOS→NYP: 2173 11961676 ![]() |
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Adirondack® 10322765 ![]() |
international | MTR→NYP: 68 11922066 ![]() NYP→MTR: 69 4073816 ![]() |
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Auto Train® 10322764 ![]() |
car | SFA→LOR: 52 12009935 ![]() LOR→SFA: 53 3517701 ![]() |
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Blue Water℠ 10322763 ![]() |
regional | CHI→PTH: 364 1687374 ![]() PTH→CHI: 365 11879713 ![]() |
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California Zephyr℠ 905830 ![]() |
national | EMY→CHI: 6 8440301 ![]() CHI→EMY: 5 8440320 ![]() |
EMY-CHI ![]() ![]() CHI-EMY ![]() ![]() |
Capitol Corridor℠ 2845553 ![]() |
regional | SJC→SAC: 524;528;532;538;542;546;548;724;728;732;738;744;748 9601565 ![]() OAC→SAC: 550 9601559 ![]() OKJ→SAC: 520;522;530;534;540;544;720;734;736;746 9601564 ![]() SJC→ARN: 742 8472909 ![]() OKJ→ARN: 536 9601563 ![]() SAC→SJC: 521;523;525;527;537;543;547;723;727;737;741;743;747 9601566 ![]() SAC→OAC: 531;535;549;733 9601560 ![]() SAC→OKJ: 541;545;551;553;745;749;751 9601562 ![]() ARN→SJC: 729 8472908 ![]() ARN→OKJ: 529 9601561 ![]() |
EB ![]() ![]() WB ![]() ![]() |
Capitol Limited℠ 10563425 ![]() |
national | CHI→WAS: 30 12022605 ![]() WAS→CHI: 29 2794554 ![]() |
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Cardinal® 10322762 ![]() |
national | CHI→NYP: 50 2807121 ![]() NYP→CHI: 51 12037189 ![]() |
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Carl Sandburg®-Illinois Zephyr® 10322761 ![]() |
regional | QCY→CHI: 380;382 11891956 ![]() CHI→QCY: 381;383 4744150 ![]() |
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Carolinian℠ 10322760 ![]() |
national | CLT→NYP: 80 11996020 ![]() NYP→CLT: 79 1900976 ![]() |
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Cascades ® 10322759 ![]() |
international regional |
PDX→VAC: 518 10571796 ![]() SEA→VAC: 516 10945392 ![]() EUG→SEA: 500;508 10945393 ![]() 506 11845490 ![]() PDX→SEA: 502 11845489 ![]() 504 10945389 ![]() VAC→PDX: 517 71428 ![]() VAC→SEA: 519 10945391 ![]() SEA→EUG: 505 10945394 ![]() SEA→PDX: 501 10945390 ![]() 507 11845488 ![]() PDX→EUG: 511;513 10945388 ![]() |
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City of New Orleans® 1532755 ![]() |
national | NOL→CHI: 58 8436201 ![]() CHI→NOL: 59 8436202 ![]() |
CHI-NOL ![]() ![]() NOL-CHI ![]() ![]() |
Coast Starlight® 10322757 ![]() |
national | LAX→SEA: 14 12074397 ![]() SEA→LAX: 11 2812900 ![]() |
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Crescent® 10322758 ![]() |
national | NOL→NYP: 20 1809808 ![]() NYP→NOL: 19 12041225 ![]() |
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Downeaster℠ 10322756 ![]() |
regional | BRK→BON: 680;682;684;688 11889370 ![]() 690;692;694;698 11889368 ![]() BON→BRK: 681;683;685;689 4743492 ![]() 691;693;695;699 11889369 ![]() |
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Empire Builder® 10322755 ![]() |
national | SEA→CHI: 8 10946021 ![]() PDX→CHI: 28 10946020 ![]() CHI→SEA: 7 1809794 ![]() CHI→PDX: 27 12089100 ![]() |
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Empire Service® 4452798 ![]() |
regional | ALB→NYP: 236;238;242;250;252;256;260 4452779 ![]() 244;254 10322903 ![]() 230;232 10322902 ![]() 234 10322901 ![]() NFL→NYP: 280;288 10322904 ![]() 284 9155838 ![]() NYP→ALB: 233;235;241;243;253;255;259 4234377 ![]() 239;245;261 10322899 ![]() 237 10322898 ![]() NYP→NFL: 281 10322900 ![]() 283 9155839 ![]() |
NYP-ALB ![]() ![]() ALB-NYP ![]() ![]() NYP-NFL ![]() ![]() NFL-NYP ![]() ![]() |
Ethan Allen Express® 4445810 ![]() |
regional | RUD→NYP: 290;292;296 4445771 ![]() NYP→RUD: 291;295 4234911 ![]() 293 10322921 ![]() |
SB ![]() ![]() NB ![]() ![]() |
Hartford Line 10530881 ![]() |
regional | NHV→SPG: 450;460;464;470;474;476;4404;4406;4466;6400;6402;6410;6454 9704911 ![]() NHV→HFD: 4452;4458;4462;6456;6458 11921113 ![]() SPG→NHV: 409;417;463;465;467;473;475;4405;4407;4467;6401;6403;6411;6455 11921114 ![]() HFD→NHV: 4453;4461;4463;6457;6459 11921112 ![]() |
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Heartland Flyer® 4743154 ![]() |
regional | FTW→OKC: 822 9161444 ![]() OKC→FTW: 821 9161443 ![]() |
OKC-FTW ![]() ![]() FTW-OKC ![]() ![]() |
Hiawatha Service® 9161615 ![]() |
regional | MKE→CHI: 330;332;334;336;338;340;342 9161614 ![]() CHI→MKE: 329;331;333;335;337;339;341;343 1638760 ![]() |
MKE-CHI ![]() ![]() CHI-MKE ![]() ![]() |
Illini®-Saluki® 1902680 ![]() |
regional | CDL→CHI: 390;392 8438427 ![]() CHI→CDL: 391;393 8438428 ![]() |
CHI-CDL ![]() ![]() CDL-CHI ![]() ![]() |
Keystone Service® 10322752 ![]() |
regional | HAR→PHL: 610;612;654;656;662;666;670;674 11914036 ![]() 600;642;646;664 11914032 ![]() 618;658 11914033 ![]() 620;622 11914031 ![]() 644;648 11914029 ![]() 650 11914034 ![]() HAR→NYP: 640 4748609 ![]() 652 11914037 ![]() 660 11914038 ![]() 672 11914039 ![]() PHL→HAR: 601;605;611;619;649;651;655;661;665;667;671 11914028 ![]() 609;615;643;645 11914026 ![]() 607 11914027 ![]() 647 11914025 ![]() NYP→HAR: 641 11914040 ![]() 653 11914041 ![]() 663 11960995 ![]() 669 11960996 ![]() |
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Lake Shore Limited® 10322753 ![]() |
national | CHI→NYP: 48 1358974 ![]() CHI→BOS: 448 12015551 ![]() NYP→CHI: 49 10946018 ![]() BOS→CHI: 449 10946019 ![]() |
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Lincoln® Service 10322754 ![]() |
regional | STL→CHI: 300;302;304;306 4744138 ![]() CHI→STL: 301 12192445 ![]() 303;305;307 11893734 ![]() |
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Maple Leaf℠ 4467191 ![]() |
international | TWO→NFS: 97 (VIA Rail) 11980837 ![]() NFS→NYP: 64 4467190 ![]() NYP→NFS: 63 4467189 ![]() NFS→TWO: 98 (VIA Rail) 11980838 ![]() |
TWO-NYP ![]() ![]() NYP-TWO ![]() ![]() |
Missouri River Runner℠ 10322748 ![]() |
regional | KCY→STL: 314;316 11896405 ![]() STL→KCY: 311;313 4743862 ![]() |
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Northeast Regional℠ 10322749 ![]() |
regional | NFK→BOS: 88 11977194 ![]() 94 11977193 ![]() NFK→NYP: 84 11977192 ![]() NPN→BOS: 96;194 11977190 ![]() 66 11977189 ![]() 174 11977191 ![]() RNK→BOS: 176 11977188 ![]() RNK→NYP: 156 11977187 ![]() WAS→BOS: 86 11977838 ![]() 162 11977837 ![]() 164 11977836 ![]() 166 11977835 ![]() 168 11977834 ![]() 170 11977833 ![]() 172 11977832 ![]() 178 11977831 ![]() WAS→SPG: 140 11976781 ![]() 146 11976780 ![]() 148 11976779 ![]() WAS→NYP: 82;192 11977961 ![]() 138;158 11977962 ![]() 126 11977959 ![]() 134 11977958 ![]() 198 11977960 ![]() NYP→BOS: 150 11977945 ![]() 160 11977947 ![]() 190 11977946 ![]() BOS→NFK: 93 11977201 ![]() 95 4799100 ![]() BOS→NPN: 65;67 11977198 ![]() 99 11977199 ![]() BOS→RNK: 171 11977196 ![]() BOS→WAS: 135 11977847 ![]() 137 11977846 ![]() 139 11977845 ![]() 161 11977844 ![]() 165 11977843 ![]() 167 11977842 ![]() 173 11977841 ![]() 175 11977840 ![]() 195 11977839 ![]() BOS→NYP: 169 11977948 ![]() 179 11977949 ![]() SPG→NFK: 157 11976782 ![]() SPG→RNK: 147 4799101 ![]() SPG→WAS: 141;143 11976783 ![]() NYP→NFK: 87 11977200 ![]() NYP→NPN: 125 11977197 ![]() NYP→RNK: 145 11977195 ![]() NYP→WAS: 133 11977954 ![]() 155 11977955 ![]() 181 11977957 ![]() 189 11977956 ![]() 193 11977953 ![]() |
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Pacific Surfliner® 10322750 ![]() |
regional | SLO→SAN: 774 11897311 ![]() GTA→SAN: 768 11897309 ![]() 796 11897307 ![]() LAX→SAN: 564;580;584;1564;1584 11897306 ![]() SAN→SLO: 777 2812898 ![]() SAN→GTA: 763 11897308 ![]() 785 11897310 ![]() SAN→LAX: 579;593;767;1767 11897305 ![]() |
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Palmetto® 10322751 ![]() |
national | SAV→NYP: 90 12006219 ![]() NYP→SAV: 89 2648181 ![]() |
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Pennsylvanian℠ 10322745 ![]() |
regional | PGH→NYP: 42 4044002 ![]() NYP→PGH: 43 11913832 ![]() |
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Pere Marquette® 10322746 ![]() |
regional | CHI→GRR: 370 2744526 ![]() GRR→CHI: 371 11851451 ![]() |
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Piedmont® 10322747 ![]() |
regional | CLT→RGH: 74;76;78 11904123 ![]() RGH→CLT: 73;75;77 1901007 ![]() |
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San Joaquins℠ 4668744 ![]() |
regional | OKJ→BFD: 710;712;714;716;718 4668743 ![]() SAC→BFD: 702;704 4713797 ![]() BFD→OKJ: 711;713;715;717;719 4668742 ![]() BFD→SAC: 701;703 2856113 ![]() |
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Silver Meteor® 10322741 ![]() |
national | MIA→NYP: 98 12009839 ![]() NYP→MIA: 97 1590286 ![]() |
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Silver Star® 10322742 ![]() |
national | MIA→NYP: 92 12011066 ![]() NYP→MIA: 91 1897938 ![]() |
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Southwest Chief® 4720714 ![]() |
national | LAX→CHI: 4 904839 ![]() CHI→LAX: 3 4720713 ![]() |
CHI-LAX ![]() ![]() LAX-CHI ![]() ![]() |
Sunset Limited® 10322739 ![]() |
national | LAX→NOL: 2 10946017 ![]() NOL→LAX: 1 297142 ![]() |
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Texas Eagle® 10322739 ![]() |
national | SAS→CHI: 22 12180535 ![]() LAX→CHI: 422 12180533 ![]() CHI→SAS: 21 2795760 ![]() CHI→LAX: 421 12180534 ![]() |
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Valley Flyer 10322743 ![]() |
regional | NHV→GFD: 488;494 4797181 ![]() SPG→GFD: 400 11961041 ![]() GFD→NHV: 461;471 11921097 ![]() GFD→SPG: 499 11961042 ![]() |
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Vermonter℠ 10322744 ![]() |
regional | WAS→SAB: 54 11961030 ![]() 56 1359387 ![]() SAB→WAS: 55 11921087 ![]() 57 11961031 ![]() |
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Winter Park Express 13938483 ![]() |
regional | DEN→WPR: 1105 13938482 ![]() WPR→DEN: 1106 13938481 ![]() |
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Wolverine® 10322740 ![]() |
regional | CHI→PNT: 350 1665342 ![]() 352 12044090 ![]() 354 12044091 ![]() PNT→CHI: 351 11879712 ![]() 353 12044088 ![]() 355 12044089 ![]() |
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About the (branding, livery) colors in the passenger=* column
Mapzen made a rail renderer, transit-colours, that displayed passenger route=trains with their colour=* (or color=*) tag value (and at closer zooms, route=subway, route=light_rail, route=tram). Although Amtrak does not assign colors to routes, routes above display colors in a rough schema: passenger=international = a purple or green, passenger=national (interstate, long distance) = blue, highspeed=yes = red, passenger=regional = a brown or orange and service=car = yellow. Try clicking the passenger=* column's sort arrow to see:
- International routes include Cascades green (as below) and purples: Adirondack as DarkViolet (dark, as it is on a "higher-speed" corridor; see below), Maple Leaf as MediumOrchid.
- National routes are blue, most are overnight routes (all Amtrak night routes are passenger=national). Overnight routes are darker shades of blue, such as DarkBlue on California Zephyr and MidnightBlue on Coast Starlight. The longest national routes are darkest blue.
- National routes without overnight service are lighter shades of blue: SkyBlue on Carolinian and DeepSkyBlue on Palmetto. Because of this and their "medium distance" length, an argument can be made that these two routes are more regional, rather than national. No current regional routes have overnight service.
- Regional routes are assigned web safe colors in brown and orange palettes (smearing a bit into beige/yellowish/mustard/khaki). Exceptionally, one major regional route is a medium shade of blue: Pacific Surfliner as OceanBlue.
- Regional routes lighter in color (neither dark nor deeply saturated) are regular-speed routes so that regional routes on "higher-speed" corridors are colored darker (DarkOrange, SaddleBrown...). Bold white text indicates higher-speed corridors, regular black text on (lighter colored) regional routes indicates regular-speed.
- Lighter-shade browns are all "regular speed, shorter-length regional routes" (desaturation=shorter).
This scheme has minor flaws, for example, Vermonter is a darker brown (Sienna), yet it is not higher-speed, however it is lengthier, so darker-shade regional now has a double-meaning of higher-speed or lengthier. Have fun.
Assigning web safe brown or orange colors to each Amtrak regional route underscores the difficulty of this task and may explain why Amtrak does not assign colors, but OSM can make good choices here. For example: on Amtrak Cascades service in Washington state, OSM's Amtrak wiki and Mapzen both display(ed) a closely matching shade of green, which in turn (by intention) better matches livery of rolling stock found only on those tracks by that line and class of service; also, Amtrak and California/Railroads/Passenger show that passenger=regional Capitol Corridor route = poppy orange, color of California state flower. However, overloading/exceptions do happen with brown/orange on passenger=regional routes: Pacific Surfliner is a non-brown/orange regional route tagged with a medium shade of blue. A goal is better visual color consistency (given the above schema, which attempts to bend without breaking) across all passenger=* services. Color harmony, in motion.
About the colors and symbols in the Status and Notes column
Color and symbol legend: status of each route is indicated by a symbol, which describes the type of feature, and a color, which indicates the completeness of that feature in OSM. For more details, see Wiki Help. Meaning of symbols:
Symbol | Meaning |
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Route status |
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Stops status |
The codes 0-4 are a logical progression, but they do not all have to be used in sequence. It is perfectly acceptable to go from 0 (nothing on map) to 3 (everything done in opinion of one editor). However, there should never be a jump to level 4. r=4 should only appear after r=3, and the same with h=3 & h=4, as this implies the relation has been checked by both the editor who completed it (level 3), and a second editor (level 4). Given these are different people, a jump up to level 4 from anything other than 3 is not possible.