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Amtrak Midwest
Amtrak Midwest is a brand name applied by Amtrak to its state-supported routes in the Midwest states of Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Missouri. , Amtrak Midwest consists of eleven named trains: * * * ''Illinois Service'': , ''Illinois Zephyr'' and ''Carl Sandburg'', and ''Illini'' and ''Saluki'' * '' Michigan Services'': , , and * The routes generally form a hub-and-spoke network around Chicago Union Station, with all trains terminating there except for one ''Missouri River Runner'' round trip. Other routes in development include the and . Operations Services , Amtrak Midwest consists of eleven named trains operating in ten service patterns. The ''Illinois Zephyr'' and ''Carl Sandburg'' share identical routes, as do the ''Illini'' and ''Saluki''. The ''Lincoln Service'' and ''Missouri River Runner'' operate separately except for one daily round trip (trains 318 and 319) in which they are combined. There are 22 Amtrak Midwest round trips each weekday, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lincoln Service
The ''Lincoln Service'' is a higher-speed rail service operated by Amtrak that runs between Chicago, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri. The train is a part of the '' Illinois Service'' and is partially funded by the Illinois Department of Transportation. The train uses the same route as the long-distance '' Texas Eagle'', which continues to and . A connection with the -bound '' Missouri River Runner'' is available in St. Louis. , the average trip time between Chicago and St. Louis was 4 hours 59 minutes. During fiscal year 2023, the ''Lincoln Service'' trains carried 523,304 passengers, an increase of 9.9% from FY2022. This is a 16.7% decrease from pre-COVID-19 pandemic ridership, with 627,599 passengers in FY2019. In FY2016, the service had a total revenue of $14,266,964, a decrease of 1.3% from FY2015. History Prior to the ''Lincoln Service'', Amtrak had operated the daily '' State House'' train between Chicago and St. Louis since 1973. Originally intended to connect Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Union Station
Chicago Union Station is an Inter-city rail, intercity and commuter rail terminal station, terminal located in the West Loop neighborhood of the Near West Side, Chicago, Near West Side of Chicago. Amtrak's flagship station in the Midwest, Union Station is the terminus of eight national long-distance Amtrak routes, long-distance routes and eight regional Amtrak Midwest, corridor routes. Six Metra commuter lines also terminate here. Union Station is just west of the Chicago River between West Adams Street and West Jackson Boulevard, adjacent to the Chicago Loop. Including approach and storage tracks, it covers about nine and a half city blocks (mostly underground, beneath streets and skyscrapers, some built with the earliest usage of railway air rights). The present station opened in 1925, replacing an earlier union station on this site built in 1881. The station is the List of busiest railway stations in North America, fourth-busiest rail station in the United States, after Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iowa
Iowa ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the upper Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west; Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois to the east and southeast, Missouri to the south, Nebraska to the west, South Dakota to the northwest, and Minnesota to the north. Iowa is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 26th largest in total area and the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 31st most populous of the List of states and territories of the United States, 50 U.S. states, with a population of 3.19 million. The state's List of capitals in the United States, capital, List of cities in Iowa, most populous city, and largest List of metropolitan statistical areas, metropolitan area fully located within the state is Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines. A portion of the larger Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area, Omaha, Nebraska, metropolitan area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dubuque, Iowa
Dubuque (, ) is a city in Dubuque County, Iowa, United States, and its county seat. The population was 59,667 at the 2020 United States census. The city lies along the Mississippi River at the junction of Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin, a region locally known as the Tri-State Area. It serves as the main commercial, industrial, educational, and cultural center for the area. Geographically, it is part of the Driftless Area, a portion of North America that escaped all three phases of the Wisconsin Glaciation, resulting in a hilly topography unlike most of the Midwestern United States. Dubuque is a regional tourist destination featuring the city's unique architecture, casinos, and riverside location. It is home to five institutions of higher education. While Dubuque has historically been a center of manufacturing, the local economy also includes health care, publishing, and financial service sectors. History Spain gained control of the Louisiana Territory west of the Mississippi R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metra
Metra is the primary commuter rail system in the Chicago metropolitan area serving the city of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs via the Union Pacific Railroad, BNSF Railway, and other railroads. The system operates 243 train station, stations on 11 rail lines. It is the List of United States commuter rail systems by ridership, fourth busiest commuter rail system in the United States by ridership and the largest and busiest commuter rail system outside the New York City metropolitan area. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . The estimated busiest day for Metra ridership occurred on November 4, 2016—the day of the Chicago Cubs 2016 World Series victory rally, with a record 460,000+ passengers. Metra is the descendant of numerous passenger rail services dating to the 1850s. The present system dates to 1974, when the Illinois General Assembly established the Regional Transportation Authority (Illinois), Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siemens Venture
Siemens Venture is a type of locomotive-hauled passenger railroad car built by Siemens Mobility for the North American market. The cars are derived from the Siemens Viaggio Comfort cars used in Europe, with adaptations for North American operations. The cars entered service with Brightline in 2018 and with Amtrak Midwest (services funded by Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, and Wisconsin) in 2022. They have also been ordered by Amtrak for national and other state-supported routes (including those in California, Washington (state), Washington, Oregon, New York (state), New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maine, Virginia, North Carolina, and Vermont), Via Rail, and Ontario Northland Railway, Ontario Northland. The Venture cars will also be used on Amtrak’s Airo trainsets. History The Venture dates back to 2014 when All Aboard Florida (now Brightline) purchased five trainsets for its new Brightline service along with ten Siemens Charger SCB-40 diesel-electric locomotives. The pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siemens Charger
The Siemens Charger is a family of diesel-electric/ dual-mode passenger locomotives designed and manufactured by Siemens Mobility for the North American market. There are five variants of the Charger, tailored for different operators and types of service: ALC-42 for Amtrak long-distance service, ALC-42E dual mode for Amtrak inter-city and long-distance routes that serve the Northeast Corridor, SC-44 for Amtrak state-supported inter-city service or commuter rail operators, SCB-40 for Brightline inter-city service and SCV-42 for VIA Rail inter-city service in Canada. The first production Charger, an SC-44, was unveiled on March 26, 2016, and entered revenue service on August 24, 2017. It was followed by the SCB-40, which inaugurated Brightline service on January 13, 2018. The first ALC-42 was delivered to Amtrak on June 17, 2021, and entered revenue service on February 8, 2022, on the ''Empire Builder''. The Charger is often paired with Venture passenger cars, also built by S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of New Orleans (train)
The ''City of New Orleans'' is a long-distance Amtrak routes, long-distance passenger train operated by Amtrak in the Central United States between Chicago and New Orleans. The overnight train takes about 19 hours to complete its route, making major stops in Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Champaign–Urbana, Carbondale, Illinois, Carbondale, Memphis, Tennessee, Memphis, and Jackson, Mississippi, Jackson as well as in other small towns. The ''City of New Orleans'' was first initiated by the Illinois Central Railroad in 1947 as the daytime complement to the ''Panama Limited'', a night train dating back to 1911. In 1971 both routes were conveyed to Amtrak, which retained only the ''Panama Limited''. In 1981 Amtrak revived the ''City of New Orleans'' name for the train, still on an overnight schedule, on the heels of the popular City of New Orleans (song), song of the same name by Steve Goodman. Additional corridor service on the northern segment of the route is provided by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California Zephyr
The ''California Zephyr'' is a Amtrak Long Distance, long-distance passenger train operated by Amtrak between Chicago, Illinois, Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area (at Emeryville station, Emeryville), via Omaha, Nebraska, Omaha, Denver, Salt Lake City, and Reno, Nevada, Reno. At , it is Amtrak's longest daily route, and second-longest overall after the ''Texas Eagle's'' triweekly continuation from San Antonio, Texas, San Antonio to Los Angeles, with travel time between the termini taking approximately 52 hours. Amtrak claims the route as one of its most scenic, with views of the upper Colorado River valley in the Rocky Mountains, and the Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada. The modern train is the second iteration of a train named ''California Zephyr''; the California Zephyr (1949–1970), original train was privately operated and ran on a different route through Nevada and California. During fiscal year 2023, the ''California Zephyr'' carried 328,458 passengers, an increa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Empire Builder
The ''Empire Builder'' is a daily long-distance passenger train operated by Amtrak between Chicago and either Seattle or Portland via two sections west of Spokane. Introduced in 1929, it was the flagship passenger train of the Great Northern Railway and was retained by Amtrak when it took over intercity rail service in 1971. The end-to-end travel time of the route is 45–46 hours for an average speed of about , though the train travels as fast as over the majority of the route. It is Amtrak's busiest long-distance route. During fiscal year 2023, the ''Empire Builder'' carried 338,993 passengers, an increase of 15.0% from FY2022 but 21.8% below pre-COVID-19 levels (433,372 passengers during FY2019). During FY2022, the train had a total revenue of $49,600,000. History The Great Northern Railway inaugurated the ''Empire Builder'' on June 10, 1929. It was named in honor of the company's founder, James J. Hill, who had reorganized several failing railroads into th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amtrak Long Distance
The Long Distance Service Line is the division of Amtrak responsible for operating all intercity passenger train services in the United States longer than . There are fourteen such routes , serving over 300 stations in 39 states. Amtrak's long-distance routes form the backbone of the US national rail network, providing an alternative to intercity drives or flights. They are also noted for their scenery, and are popular as vacations and experiential travel. A few routes provide direct service to List of national parks of the United States, National Parks, with Amtrak Thruway buses reaching many more. The rider experience of Amtrak's long-distance trains is distinct from its Northeast Corridor and state-supported services. All trains except the involve at least one night of travel, and so are outfitted with sleeping cars, sleeping and dining cars. Routes depart once daily in each direction, at most, so some stops are served only at night. Delays are commonplace on long-distance tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoosier State (train)
The ''Hoosier State'' was a passenger train service operated by Amtrak between Chicago Union Station, Chicago and Indianapolis Union Station, Indianapolis. It ran on the four days each week that the ''Cardinal (train), Cardinal'' did not run, giving daily rail service to the Chicago–Indianapolis corridor. The ''Hoosier State'' ceased on June 30, 2019, after funding for the train was not written into Indiana's 2019 state budget. The ''Cardinal'' continues to provide three round trips per week between Chicago and Indianapolis. History Prior service Prior to the formation of Amtrak, the Chicago–Indianapolis market was served by several daily trains, the Pennsylvania Railroad's ''South Wind'' and ''Kentuckian'', and the New York Central Railroad, New York Central's ''James Whitcomb Riley (train), James Whitcomb Riley'', ''Indianapolis Special'', and ''Sycamore''. There is a name antecedent to the train. The Monon Railroad ran the ''Hoosier (train), Hoosier'' daily between Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
