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The Silver Star is a temporarily discontinued long-distance passenger train operated by Amtrak on a 1,522-mile (2,449 km) route between New York City and Miami via Washington, D.C.; Richmond, Virginia; Raleigh, North Carolina; Columbia, South Carolina; Savannah, Georgia; Jacksonville, Florida; and Tampa, Florida.
The southbound St. Petersburg section of the Floridian at Clearwater in 1979. Amtrak also began serving the west coast of Florida by splitting the now-daily South Wind into St. Petersburg and Miami sections. The train split at Auburndale, with one section continuing to Miami and another going to St. Petersburg via Tampa.
30th Street Station in Philadelphia Omaha station in Omaha, Nebraska, designed as part of the Amtrak Standard Stations Program This is a list of train stations and Amtrak Thruway stops used by Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation in the United States). This list is in alphabetical order by station or stop name, which mostly corresponds to the city in which it is located. If an ...
Kissimmee: Cocoa (planned) ... (382,551), and St. Petersburg-Clearwater ... Amtrak Thruway service is offered connecting Amtrak trains to cities off of train routes, ...
The new train, called the Floridian, will use the entire route of the Capitol Limited between Chicago and Washington, D.C., and the route of the Silver Star between Washington, D.C. and Miami. The combined train will use single-level Amfleet and Viewliner cars from the Silver Star and carry the train numbers 40 and 41, which were previously ...
Kissimmee station is a train station in Kissimmee, Florida. It is served by SunRail commuter rail service and two Amtrak intercity routes (Floridian and Silver Meteor). The station opened in 1883, and has served several different railroads. It is the closest Amtrak station to Walt Disney World.
CSX locomotives pulling a circus train in Safety Harbor, Florida, on the Clearwater Subdivision in 1992. The Clearwater Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in the Tampa Bay region of Florida. The line begins just east of downtown Tampa in Gary and heads north through some of Tampa's suburban neighborhoods.
The train was rerouted via SCL's ex-ACL mainline via Jesup, Georgia, in late 1979, the same route as the Silver Star, after SCL expressed desire to abandon the Everett Subdivision. Similarly, the Silver Star ran between Petersburg, Virginia , and Raleigh via the ex-SAL Norlina Subdivision , with a stop at Henderson, North Carolina , until 1985.