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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 Wilmington Rail Viaduct is a series of fills and bridges, about 4 miles (6.4 km) long, that carries the Northeast Corridor through the city of Wilmington, Delaware, above street level. Constructed between 1902 and 1908, the structure consists principally of fills supported by heavy stone retaining walls , punctuated with plate girder ...
It is the seventh-busiest Amtrak station in the Mid-Atlantic region (behind New York Penn, Washington Union, 30th Street, Baltimore Penn, Albany-Rensselaer and BWI) and the 13th-busiest nationwide. It is also served by SEPTA Regional Rail 's Wilmington/Newark Line with service to Center City Philadelphia and Newark, Delaware .
This is a route-map template for the Northeast Corridor, an Amtrak train service in the United States.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
The Federal Railroad Administration has allocated a $500,000 grant to the Delaware Transit Corporation to plan the schedules, route, and cost of the project. A route for this project hasn't been officially decided, however the line has been said to start from either Newark or Wilmington , go through the state capital of Dover , and end in ...
Amtrak currently operates 15 long-distance trains, ranging from approximately 760 to 2,500 miles. The bipartisan infrastructure bill passed in 2021 tasked the FRA with reviewing Amtrak's routes ...
Amtrak vice president Bill Norman speaks at the dedication ceremony in October 1980. First proposed in 1964 by Charles Adler, a Baltimore-based inventor of traffic and aircraft safety devices, [6] the station was dedicated on October 23, 1980 – coincidentally, mere hours after Adler's death – and opened for Amtrak intercity and Conrail (now MARC) commuter trains three days later.
The line offers southbound service to Wilmington and Newark, Delaware and northbound service to Philadelphia. Marcus Hook station was originally built by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1875, replaced in 1893. That station depot was razed in February 1963. Two other Baltimore and Ohio Railroad stations also used to exist in the Borough. [8]