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Front Range Passenger Rail is a proposed intercity passenger train service along the Front Range and broader I-25 corridors in Colorado and Wyoming. Most proposals envision a route from Pueblo north to Colorado Springs, Denver, Boulder, and Fort Collins. Extensions north to Cheyenne and south to Trinidad, Albuquerque, and even El Paso have been ...
The Utahn was a short-lived named passenger train operated by the Union Pacific Railroad between Cheyenne, Wyoming and Los Angeles, California that ran from 1947 to 1951. The train was unique due to its mixed-up variety of UP motive power.
Metrolink connects with Los Angeles County's Metro Rail and Metro Busway systems, North County Transit District's Coaster commuter rail and Sprinter hybrid rail services, and with Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner, Coast Starlight, Southwest Chief, Sunset Limited, and Texas Eagle inter-city rail services. [10]
The following is a list of all heavy rail rapid transit systems in the United States. It does not include statistics for bus or light rail systems; see: List of United States light rail systems by ridership for light rail systems. All ridership figures represent unlinked passenger trips, so line transfers on multi-line systems register as ...
Last had passenger service in 1968, when the Florida East Coast Railroad ended its operations. The last interstate trains were in 1963 when the East Coast Champion and City of Miami routes were moved inland from the Atlantic Coast. The Havana Special ended entirely that year. Amtrak trains stop at DeLand Station, 28 miles (45 km) to the west.
A 1,377-mile (2,216 km) passenger train route operated by Amtrak on the West Coast of the United States. It runs from Union Station in Los Angeles north to King Street Station in Seattle, Washington. Southwest Chief A 2,265-mile (3,645 km) passenger train route operated by Amtrak through the Midwestern and Southwestern United States.
Taking overall track length into consideration, Metro Rail's rapid transit lines transport 7,960 passengers per route mile, making this the fifth busiest U.S. rapid transit system on a per mile basis. Metro's light rail system is the second-busiest in the United States with 141,000 average weekday boardings as of the third quarter of 2024. [1]
In the Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 (PRIIA), Congress divided Amtrak's routes into three strictly-defined service lines: Northeast Corridor routes, short distance corridors (less than 750 mi (1,210 km)), and long-distance routes of more than 750 mi (1,210 km). Unlike short distance "state-supported" corridors, long ...