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The Silver Meteor is a long-distance passenger train operated by Amtrak between New York City and Miami, Florida.Introduced in 1939 as the first diesel-powered streamliner between New York and Florida, it was the flagship train of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL) and one of the flagship trains of its successor, the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (SCL).
Silver Meteor: Selma, North Carolina: Train collision 1 121 The train collided with a trailer that was falling off a passing CSX freight train. RAR-95-02: August 3, 1994 Lake Shore Limited: Batavia, New York: Derailment 0 118 The train derailed due to a track defect. RAR-96-02: October 9, 1995: Sunset Limited: Palo Verde, Arizona: Derailment 1 78
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.
Amtrak's Palmetto operates over the Silver Meteor's route between New York City and Savannah. However, from 1996 to 2002, the train was known as the Silver Palm and ran all the way south to Miami, though over a different routing between Jacksonville and Auburndale.
When Amtrak assumed control of most of the passenger rail service in the United States in 1971, the Champion was retained as a New York–St. Petersburg service (#85/87) operating over the same line it had for the past thirty-two years. On several occasions throughout the 1970s Amtrak would combine the Champion with its old rival the Silver Meteor.
English: Amtrak’s Silver Meteor arrives in Palatka, Florida on January 28th, 2023. Leading nine passenger cars are two GE P42DC locomotives. The leader, number 207, was the last P42DC built for Amtrak in 2001.
The northbound and southbound Silver Meteor trains (operating between New York and Miami) would normally have passed at Eloise. Due to the malfunction, both trains were given stop signals, but the switch was not set to take the northbound train onto the siding as it normally would be, and the CTC dispatcher did not warn the trains.
Amtrak discontinued the Tampa section of the Silver Meteor in 1994. In 1995 Amtrak discontinued the Gulf Breeze, Palmetto, and Broadway Limited, the latter being partially replaced with the short-distance Three Rivers. Meanwhile, the City of New Orleans was rerouted west to Greenwood between Memphis and Jackson.