AMTRAK TRAIN HISTORIES

Changes, additions and discontinuances of Amtrak trains since its creation.

LONG DISTANCE/WEST

LONG DISTANCE/EAST-MIDWEST

LONG DISTANCE/EAST-SOUTH

CORRIDORS

AMTRAK HISTORY LINKS

Museum of Railway Timetables

Web site includes scanned images of nearly every Amtrak system timetable since 1971.

List Of Amtrak Routes (Wikipedia)

PASSSENGER TRAIN ROUTINGS

Many passenger train routings, including in major cities, have remained unchanged into the Amtrak era. But some routes have been changed since the formation of Amtrak, either due to track consolidations due to one railroad's merger, or switching between different railroads in order to best form a national passenger rail system.

Passenger Train Routes In Major Cities
Historic passenger train routings, and those used by Amtrak.

Amtrak Connecting Railroads
Zoomable Google Maps show additional interesting locations, mostly away from the major cities, where Amtrak trains switch between different lines.

Consolidating Amtrak Into Chicago Union Station
Amtrak adopted Chicago Union Station as its main hub outside the Northeast Corridor. And several Amtrak service changes required some interesting routings, in a city which historically had six separate terminal stations for intercity passenger trains.