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The Capitol Limited is a temporarily discontinued daily Amtrak train between Washington, D.C., and Chicago, running 764 miles (1,230 km) via Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Service began in 1981. On November 10, 2024, Amtrak temporarily combined the Capitol Limited and Silver Star, producing a Chicago-Washington–Miami route, the Floridian.
With the advent of Amtrak on May 1, 1971, the Capitol Limited was discontinued by the B&O, along with all of its other passenger trains save local commuter services. For the final run of the old Capitol Limited on April 29, 1971, the B&O ran the entire trainset from Baltimore's Camden Station, including the dome car. [17]
Amtrak created the Capitol Limited in 1981 as a Washington section of the Chicago–New York Broadway Limited, with the split occurring in Pittsburgh. [2] It became a fully separate train in 1986. [3] The train gained bilevel Superliner cars in 1994. [4] Amtrak inherited the Silver Star from the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad in 1971.
The Floridian will combine the most of the Silver Star with the Capital Limited between Washington and Chicago. Amtrak to offer direct train service between the Triangle and the Midwest Skip to ...
The Floridian (trains 40 & 41) will operate on a similar schedule as the two routes that are combined to make it. Capitol Limited (trains 29 & 30) between Chicago and Washington, D.C.
The commuter train service could be suspended as early as Thursday.
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.
On November 10, 2024, Amtrak temporarily combined the Capitol Limited and Silver Star, producing a Chicago-Washington–Miami route, the Floridian. During fiscal year 2023, the Silver Star carried 351,732 passengers, a decrease of 19.1% from FY2022. [3] In November 2023, the train had a total revenue of $8.7 million. [4]