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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.
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.
Currently, Amtrak's only Tennessee stops are on the City of New Orleans line in Memphis and Newbern-Dyersburg. Amtrak is launching the Floridian, a new temporary route offering a direct round-trip ...
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]
Capitol Limited (trains 29 & 30) between Chicago and Washington, D.C. Silver Star (trains 91 & 92) between Miami and Washington, D.C. Notable stops include Savannah, Washington, D.C. and Pittsburgh.
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 ...
At its inception, Amtrak did not continue any of the B&O's former passenger train routes, and the Capitol Limited ended its 48-year run on the B&O. After a lapse of ten years, Amtrak revived Washington–Chicago service, using the same B&O tracks (now CSX Transportation) between Washington and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for the Amtrak Capitol ...
The commuter train service could be suspended as early as Thursday.