Talk:List of Amtrak routes

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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)

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)

Contents 1 By number 1.1 1-99 1.2 100-199 1.3 200-299 1.4 200-299 1.5 400-499 1.6 500-599 1.7 600-699 1.8 700-799 1.9 800-899 2 New Orleans East? 3 Trains that exist but lost their number

[edit] By number

[edit] 1-99

	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
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

[edit] 100-199

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

[edit] 200-299

	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

[edit] 200-299

	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

[edit] 400-499

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

[edit] 500-599

	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

[edit] 600-699

	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

[edit] 700-799

	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

[edit] 800-899

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

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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

• Dale, that's an excellent work you did there. Rhallanger 00:57, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Orleans East?

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)

[edit] Trains that exist but lost their number

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)