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The Wolverine is a higher-speed passenger train service operated by Amtrak as part of its Michigan Services. The 304-mile (489 km) [ 3 ] line provides three daily round-trips between Chicago and Pontiac, Michigan , via Ann Arbor and Detroit .
A 97-mile (156 km) stretch along the route of Blue Water and Wolverine from Porter, Indiana to Kalamazoo, Michigan is the longest segment of track owned by Amtrak outside of the Northeast Corridor. [11] Amtrak began speed increases along this stretch in January 2002 to 95 mph (153 km/h) between Niles and Kalamazoo.
Despite the presence of the safety system on the Michigan Line, a derailment occurred just east of Niles, Michigan, on October 21, 2012, after a Wolverine train exited the main line and entered a freight yard due to a misaligned switch. The train had a green signal and was traveling at about 60 mph (97 km/h) when it hit the switch.
The Blue Water Trains 364 and 365 will also work normally and serve Wolverine Stations in Southwestern Michigan, according to Amtrak. Trains 351, 352, 354, and 355 will also operate normally.
After only Chicago Union Station, Ann Arbor is the busiest station on the Wolverine, [12] as well as the busiest of the 22 Amtrak stations in Michigan. [13] In 2019, Amtrak handled 156,674 train arrivals and departures at the station. All of these were coach and business class tickets [4] (the Wolverine does not have a first class or sleeper ...
The station is served by Amtrak's Blue Water and Wolverine trains, as part of Amtrak's Michigan Services brand. The station was formerly served by the International , a Toronto – Chicago service which operated from 1982 to 2004 as a partnership between Via Rail and Amtrak .
The Lake Cities was a daily passenger train operated by Amtrak between Chicago, Illinois and Toledo, Ohio via Detroit, Michigan. It operated from 1980 until 2004, when it was folded into the Wolverine. It replaced the St. Clair, a Chicago–Detroit train which operated in tandem with the Wolverine.
The Wolverine was an international night train that twice crossed the Canada–United States border, going from New York City to Chicago.This New York Central Railroad train went northwest of Buffalo, New York, into Canada, traveled over Michigan Central Railroad tracks, through Windsor, Ontario, reentering the United States, through Detroit's Michigan Central Station, and on to Chicago.