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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.
On February 4, 2018, the southbound Amtrak Silver Star No. 91 passenger train from New York City to Miami collided with a stationary CSX Transportation freight train in Cayce, South Carolina, just south of the state's capital of Columbia on CSX's Columbia Subdivision. Two Amtrak crew members were killed and 116 other crew and passengers were ...
Silver Star: Wake Forest, North Carolina: Derailment 0 28 [3] [4] October 1, 1975 Floridian: Pulaski, Tennessee: Derailment 0 31 The train derailed due to spreading of the rail. RAR-76-6: November 19, 1975 Turboliner: Elwood, Illinois: Grade crossing 0 41 The train was struck by a dump truck at a grade crossing. RHR-76-2: June 30, 1976 Panama ...
However, it turned west at Jacksonville and ran via Waldo, Ocala, Wildwood, Dade City, Tampa and Lakeland, before rejoining the Silver Star and Silver Meteor in Auburndale. [4] Amtrak reinstated the Palmetto name on May 1, 2002, after eliminating the sleeper and dining cars, but it still provided service to Florida.
February 16 – United Kingdom – An express passenger train derailed at Bushey, Hertfordshire due to a broken rail. 19 people were seriously injured. [1]April 2 – United States – Lakeview, North Carolina: Amtrak's Silver Star collided head-on with a Seaboard Coast Line freight train during dense fog, injuring 123.
July 16–17 – United States – Two Amtrak Silver Star trains on the Tampa to Miami route crashed into automobiles and derailed in two separate instances, one in Lakeland and one in Plant City. Four people in the automobile died in the first wreck; one in the automobile died in the second accident. [150]
October 19 – United States – 20 cars of Missouri Pacific Railroad train No. 94 derailed in Houston; two tank cars loaded with vinyl chloride monomer were punctured, allowing the gas to escape and ignite; 45 minutes after the derailment a third tank car exploded and a fourth was "rocketed" some 300 feet (91 m) away; a fireman was killed and ...
[6] Amtrak confirmed this speculation on September 23, 2024, announcing the temporary merger of the Capitol Limited and the Silver Star. 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