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However, funding cuts led to its discontinuance on September 8, 1995, while the Cardinal continued tri-weekly operation between Chicago, Indianapolis, and the East Coast. Amtrak restored the Hoosier State on July 19, 1998, as a tri-weekly, later quad-weekly train. Northbound trains departed Indianapolis on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday ...
Amtrak train 51, the westbound Cardinal, is scheduled to depart Connersville at 3:36 a.m. on Monday, Thursday and Saturday with a service to Indianapolis, Crawfordsville, Lafayette, Rensselaer, Dyer and Chicago Union Station. Amtrak train 50, the eastbound Cardinal, is scheduled to depart Connersville at 1:31 a.m. on Wednesday, Friday and ...
This new train was a daily service; on days when the Cardinal operated, the two trains ran combined between Indianapolis and Chicago. Amtrak ultimately discontinued the Kentucky Cardinal on July 4, 2003, and brought back the Hoosier State on the pre-1999 schedule.
This listing includes current and discontinued routes operated by Amtrak since May 1, 1971. Some intercity trains were also operated after 1971 by the Alaska Railroad, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad, Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, Georgia Railroad, Reading Company, and Southern Railway.
The Kentucky Cardinal was a nightly 312-mile (502 km) passenger train operated by Amtrak from 1999 to 2003 between Chicago, Illinois, and Louisville, Kentucky, via Indianapolis, Indiana. On the three days that the Cardinal ran, the Kentucky Cardinal operated as a section, splitting at Indianapolis. On the other four days, it ran on its own to ...
Dyer station is an Amtrak station in Dyer, Indiana, served by the Cardinal route.. Dyer Station was merely a little shelter with seats before a renovation in 2014, which demolished the "Amshack" shelter built in 1986 and constructed a larger station house which was accessible, and repaved the platform and parking lot. [2]
In November 2024 Amtrak truncated the Silver Star at Washington and merged it with the Capitol Limited, creating a single Chicago–Washington–Miami route: the Floridian. [28] This was the first direct train service between the Midwest and Florida since the 1979 discontinuance of the original Floridian , albeit following a longer route.
Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway: Monon 1897–1956 Chicago Great Western Railway – 1892–1893, 1894–1955 1893–1894 Chicago, St. Paul and Kansas City Railroad: CGW 1892 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: Amtrak 1890–1971 Erie Railroad: EL 1890–1960 Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway: PCC&St.L ...