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Former Amtrak rail station planned to be reactivated for limited festival services Lodi† Lodi: 2027 San Joaquin: Planned Amtrak and ACE station Madera: Madera: 2024 San Joaquin: Planned to replace existing Madera station; future California High-Speed Rail station [5] Merced† Merced: 2027 San Joaquin
Amtrak, officially the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, is a quasi-public entity that operates passenger train services in the United States. Since its inception in 1971, it has had several route changes, contractions, and station replacements that resulted in the closure of older stations.
Map of Amtrak routes in California, highlighting the Amtrak California services: Capitol Corridor (red) Pacific Surfliner (green) San Joaquins (blue) Other Amtrak routes (daily or less) are in black. Stations served by those trains have a purple center. Thin lines are Thruway Motorcoach bus connections. Thick orangish lines are commuter rail ...
Amtrak restored the Empire Service brand with the June 11, 1972, timetable, and added individual train names on the May 19, 1974, timetable. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] As was done on the Northeast Corridor with NortheastDirect , individual train names for New York-Albany and New York-Niagara Falls service were dropped on October 28, 1995, and replaced with ...
Amtrak California (reporting mark CDTX) is a brand name used by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) Division of Rail for three state-supported Amtrak regional rail routes in California – the Capitol Corridor, the Pacific Surfliner, and the San Joaquins [1] – and their associated connecting network of Amtrak Thruway transportation services.
The Capitol Corridor is a 168-mile (270 km) passenger train route in Northern California operated by Amtrak between San Jose, in the Bay Area, and Auburn, in the Sacramento Valley. The route is named after the two points most trains operate between, San Jose (which was the first state capital of California ) and Sacramento (the current capital ...
By the time Amtrak took over the nation’s passenger rail service in 1971, just one train a day served Nashville; by the end of the decade, it, too, had ceased operations.
In the early 1990s, Amtrak tested several different high-speed trains from Europe on the Northeast Corridor. An X 2000 train was leased from Sweden for test runs from October 1992 to January 1993, followed by revenue service between Washington, D.C. and New York City from February to May and August to September 1993.