Canada |
Train Name
|
Railroad Operator
|
Train Endpoints
|
Operating Years
|
Night Express
|
Central Vermont
|
New York, NY-Montreal, PQ
|
|
Northlander
|
Ontario Northland Railway
|
Toronto-Cochrane, Ontario
|
|
Ocean
|
Canadian National, VIA Rail
|
Montreal, QC-Halifax NS
|
CN April 1966-1978;VIA 1978-present
|
Ocean Limited
|
Intercolonial Railway,Canadian Government Railways,Canadian National
|
Montreal, QC-Halifax NS
|
July 3,1904-1966
|
Overland Limited
|
Newfoundland Railway
|
Port aux Basques, NL-St. John's, NL
|
1928-1949
|
Overseas
|
New York Central-Canadian Pacific
|
Chicago, IL-Detroit, MI-Windsor, ON-Toronto, ON
|
|
Pacific Express
|
Canadian Pacific
|
Montreal, PQ- Vancouver, BC one-way
|
June 28,1886-June 1911
|
Pacific International
|
Great Northern
|
Seattle, Washington-Vancouver, BC
|
|
Pacific Limited
|
Grand Trunk Western
|
Chicago, IL-Montreal, PQ
|
1971
|
St. Paul Express
|
Canadian Pacific
|
Sault Ste. Marie, MI-Montreal, PQ
|
|
Pine Tree Acadian
|
Boston & Maine, Maine Central, Canadian Pacific, Canadian National
|
Boston, MA-Halifax, NS
|
1929
|
Polar Bear Express
|
Ontario Northland Railway
|
Cochrane, Ontario-Moosonee, Ontario
|
|
Scotian
|
Canadian National
|
Montreal, QC-Halifax, NS
|
1941
|
Viger
|
Canadian Pacific
|
Montreal, QC-Quebec City, QC
|
|
Mexico |
Train Name
|
Railroad Operator
|
Train Endpoints
|
Operating Years
|
El Nuevo Regiomontano
|
Nacionales de Mexico
|
Mexico City - Nuevo Laredo
|
|
La Oaxaqueña
|
Nacionales de Mexico
|
Mexico City - Oaxaca, Mexico
|
|
El Purepecha
|
Nacionales de Mexico
|
Mexico City - Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico
|
|
El Regiomontano
|
Nacionales de Mexico
|
Mexico City - Monterrey
|
|
El Tapatio
|
Nacionales de Mexico
|
Mexico City - Guadalajara, Jalisco
|
undetermined - 1996
|
Tequila Express[1]
|
Ferromex
|
Guadalajara, Jalisco - Amatitan, Jalisco
|
Present
|
United States |
Train Name
|
Railroad Operator
|
Train Endpoints
|
Operating Years
|
Nancy Hanks II
|
Central of Georgia
|
Atlanta, GA-Savannah, GA
|
1947-1971
|
Narragansett
|
|
Philadelphia, PA-Boston, MA
|
|
National Limited
|
Baltimore & Ohio
|
Kansas City, MO-Washington, DC Kansas City, MO-New York, NY Los Angeles, CA-Washington, DC Los Angeles, CA-New York, NY
|
|
Nebraska Zephyr
|
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
|
Chicago, IL-Lincoln, NE
|
1947-
|
New England States
|
New York Central
|
Chicago, IL-Boston, MA
|
|
New England Wolverine
|
New York Central
|
Detroit, MI-Boston, MA
|
|
New Royal Palm
|
Southern Railway, Florida East Coast Railway, connections with New York Central Railroad
|
Cincinnati, OH-Miami, FL
|
1949-1955
|
New York & Boston Special
|
Michigan Central
|
Chicago, IL-Boston, MA
|
|
New York Special
|
New York Central
|
Chicago, IL-Toledo, OH Chicago, IL-Buffalo, NY
|
|
New Yorker
|
Pennsylvania
|
New York, NY-Detroit, MI
|
|
Niagara Falls & Eastern Express
|
Michigan Central
|
Chicago, IL-Boston, MA
|
|
Niagara Rainbow
|
|
New York, NY-Detroit, MI
|
|
Night Express
|
Central Vermont
|
New York, NY-Montreal, PQ
|
|
Night Express
|
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
|
Detroit, MI-Cincinnati, OH
|
|
Night Express
|
Grand Rapids & Indiana
|
Chicago, IL-Grand Rapids, MI
|
|
Night Express
|
Pere Marquette
|
Chicago, IL-Traverse City, MI
|
|
Night Owl
|
|
Washington, DC-Boston, MA
|
|
Noon Daylight
|
Southern Pacific
|
|
1940-
|
Noon Flyer
|
Grand Rapids & Indiana
|
Chicago, IL-Grand Rapids, MI
|
|
North Coast Hiawatha
|
Amtrak
|
Chicago, IL-Seattle, WA
|
1971-1979
|
North Coast Limited
|
Northern Pacific
|
|
|
North Shore Limited
|
New York Central
|
New York, NY-Chicago, IL
|
|
North Star
|
Pennsylvania
|
Chicago, IL-Mackinaw City, MI
|
|
North Woods Hiawatha
|
Milwaukee Road
|
Chicago, IL-Minocqua, WI
|
|
Northern Arrow
|
Pennsylvania
|
Cincinnati, OH-Mackinaw City, MI
|
|
Northern Michigan Express
|
Detroit and Mackinac Railway
|
Detroit, MI-Cheboygan, MI
|
|
Northern Michigan Special
|
Milwaukee Road
|
Chicago, IL-
|
|
Northerner
|
New York Central
|
Detroit, MI-Mackinaw City, MI
|
|
Northland Express
|
Pennsylvania
|
Cincinnati, OH-Mackinaw City, MI
|
|
Ohio Special
|
New York Central
|
Detroit, MI-Cincinnati, OH
|
|
Ohio State Limited
|
New York Central
|
New York, NY-Cincinnati, OH
|
|
Oklahoman
|
St. Louis-San Francisco
|
St. Louis, MO-Oklahoma City, OK
|
1965-1967
|
Old Dominion
|
Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac
|
Washington, DC-Richmond, VA
|
1947-
|
Olympian Hiawatha
|
Milwaukee Road
|
Chicago, IL-Seattle, Washington- Tacoma, Washington
|
1947-1961
|
Oriental Limited
|
Great Northern
|
|
|
Overland Flyer
|
Union Pacific
|
|
1887-1890
|
Overland Limited
|
Union Pacific
|
|
1890-1963
|
Owl
|
Southern Pacific
|
[San Francisco, CA]-[Los Angeles, CA]
|
|
Ozark State Zephyr
|
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
|
|
|
Pacific Express
|
Michigan Central
|
New York, NY-Chicago, IL
|
|
Pacific International
|
|
Seattle, Washington-Vancouver, BC
|
|
Pacific Limited
|
Grand Trunk Western
|
Chicago, IL-Montreal, PQ
|
|
Pacific Surfliner
|
Amtrak
|
San Diego, CA-Paso Robles, CA
|
2000-
|
Palmetto
|
Amtrak
|
New York, NY-Savannah, GA
|
|
Pan American
|
Louisville & Nashville
|
Cincinatti, OH-New Orleans, LA
|
|
Panama Limited
|
Illinois Central
|
Chicago, IL-New Orleans, LA
|
1908-1971
|
Peninsula 400
|
Chicago and North Western Railway
|
Chicago, IL-Ishpeming, MI
|
1942-
|
Peninsular
|
Pere Marquette
|
Detroit, MI-Grand Rapids, MI
|
|
Penn Texas
|
Pennsylvania
|
New York, NY-St Louis, MO
|
|
Pennsy Aerotrain
|
Pennsylvania
|
|
1956-1956
|
Pennsylvania Limited
|
Pennsylvania
|
New York, NY-Detroit, MI
|
|
Peoria Rocket
|
Rock Island
|
Chicago, IL-Peoria, IL
|
1937-
|
Pere Marquette
|
Amtrak
|
Chicago, IL-Grand Rapids, MI
|
|
Pere Marquette
|
Pere Marquette
|
Detroit, MI-Grand Rapids, MI
|
1946-1947
|
Piedmont
|
Amtrak
|
Raleigh, NC-Charlotte, NC
|
|
Phoebe Snow
|
Lackawanna, Erie Lackawanna
|
Hoboken, NJ-Buffalo, NY as DL&W Hoboken, NJ-Chicago, IL as EL
|
1949-1961, reinstated 1963-1966
|
Pilgrim
|
|
New York, NY-Boston, MA
|
|
Pine Tree Acadian
|
Boston & Maine, Maine Central, Canadian Pacific, Canadian National
|
Boston, MA-Halifax, NS
|
1929
|
Pioneer Limited
|
Milwaukee Road
|
Chicago, IL-Minneapolis, MN
|
1898-1970;
|
Pioneer Zephyr
|
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
|
Kansas City, Missouri-Omaha, Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska
Galesburg, Illinois-Springfield, Missouri
|
1934-1960
|
Ponce De Leon
|
New York Central
|
Detroit, MI-Cincinnati, OH
|
|
Pony Express
|
New Jersey Transit
|
Hoboken, New Jersey-Monmouth Park Racetrack
|
1980-2006
|
Powhatan Arrow
|
Norfolk & Western
|
Norfolk, VA-Cincinnati, OH
|
|
Prairie State
|
New York Central
|
Chicago, IL-Toledo, OH
|
|
Prospector
|
Rio Grande
|
Denver, CO-Salt Lake City, UT/Ogden, UT
|
1941-1942; 1945-1967
|
Puget Sound
|
|
Seattle, Washington-Portland, Oregon
|
|
Quad City Rocket
|
|
Chicago, IL-Rock Island, IL
|
|
Rainbow Special
|
Missouri Pacific
|
Little Rock, AR-Kansas City, MO
|
1921-1954
|
Rebel
|
Gulf, Mobile & Northern
|
New Orleans, LA-Jackson, TN
|
1935-1940
|
Red Arrow
|
Pennsylvania
|
New York, NY-Detroit, MI
|
|
Red River
|
Great Northern
|
St. Paul, MN-Grand Forks, ND
|
1950-
|
Regional
|
Amtrak
|
Boston, MA-Newport News, VA
|
|
Resort Special
|
Pere Marquette
|
Detroit, MI/Chicago, IL-Bay View, MI
|
|
Rio Grande Zephyr
|
Rio Grande
|
Denver, CO-Salt Lake City, UT
|
1970-1983
|
Rocky Mountain Rocket
|
Rock Island
|
Kansas City, MO-Denver, CO
|
1939-
|
Royal Blue
|
Baltimore & Ohio
|
|
|
Royal Palm
|
Southern, Florida East Coast Railway, connections with New York Central Railroad
|
Cincinnati, OH-Miami, FL
|
1920s-1970
|
Sacramento Daylight
|
Southern Pacific
|
Lathrop, CA-Sacramento, CA
|
|
Saint
|
Santa Fe
|
Los Angeles, CA-San Francisco, CA
|
|
St. Clair
|
|
Chicago, IL-Detroit, MI
|
|
St. Louis Limited
|
Wabash
|
Detroit, MI-St. Louis, MO
|
|
St. Louis Mule
|
Amtrak
|
St. Louis, MO-Kansas City, MO
|
|
Salt City Express
|
|
New York, NY-Syracuse, NY
|
|
Sam Houston Zephyr
|
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
|
Fort Worth, TX - Houston, TX
|
|
San Diegan
|
Amtrak
|
Santa Barbara, CA-San Diego, CA
|
1971-1999
|
San Diegan
|
Santa Fe
|
Los Angeles, CA-San Diego, CA
|
1938-1971
|
San Francisco Challenger
|
Southern Pacific and Union Pacific
|
Chicago, IL-San Francisco, CA
|
1935-
|
San Francisco Chief
|
Santa Fe
|
Chicago, IL-San Francisco, CA
|
1936-1971
|
San Francisco Overland Limited
|
Union Pacific
|
|
|
San Francisco Zephyr
|
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
|
Chicago, IL-San Francisco, CA
|
|
San Joaquin Daylight
|
Southern Pacific
|
Los Angeles, CA-San Francisco, CA
|
1941-1971
|
San Juan Express
|
Denver & Rio Grande Western
|
Alamosa, CO-Durango, CO
|
1937-1951
|
San Joaquins
|
Amtrak
|
Bakersfield, CA-Oakland, CA Bakersfield, CA-Sacramento, CA
|
|
Sangamon
|
Illinois Terminal Railroad
|
|
|
Santa Fe De Luxe
|
Santa Fe
|
Chicago, IL-Los Angeles, CA
|
1911-
|
Scout
|
Santa Fe
|
Chicago, IL-Los Angeles, CA
|
|
Senator
|
|
Washington, DC-Boston, MA
|
|
Senator
|
Southern Pacific
|
Oakland, CA-Sacramento, CA
|
|
Shasta Daylight
|
Southern Pacific
|
Oakland, CA-Portland, OR
|
1949-1967
|
Shavano
|
Denver & Rio Grande Western
|
Salida, CO-Gunnison, CO
|
1937-1940
|
Shawnee
|
|
Chicago, IL-Carbondale, IL
|
|
Shelter Island Express
|
Long Island Rail Road
|
Long Island City-Greenport, New York
|
Name dropped by LIRR sometime in the 1980s
|
Shenandoah
|
|
Washington, DC-Cincinnati, OH
|
|
Shoppers Special
|
Pere Marquette
|
Chicago, IL-Grand Rapids, MI
|
|
Shoreland 400
|
Chicago and North Western Railway
|
Chicago, IL-Green Bay, WI
|
|
Silver Comet
|
PRR - SAL
|
New York, NY-Birmingham, AL
|
|
Silver Meteor
|
Seaboard Air Line, later Amtrak
|
New York, NY-Tampa, FL New York, NY-Miami, FL
|
1939-present
|
Silver Star
|
Seaboard Air Line, later Amtrak
|
New York, NY-Tampa, FL New York, NY-Miami, FL
|
1947-present
|
Silver Streak Zephyr
|
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
|
Kansas City, MO-Lincoln, NE
|
1940-
|
Silverliner Service
|
|
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
|
|
Somerset Hills Express
|
Lackawanna, Erie Lackawanna, Conrail, New Jersey Transit
|
Hoboken, New Jersey-Gladstone, New Jersey
|
1940s-2001
|
South Shore Express
|
New York Central
|
Chicago, IL-Toledo, OH
|
|
South Wind
|
Florida East Coast and Pennsylvania
|
Chicago, IL-Miami, FL
|
1940-
|
Southern Belle
|
Kansas City Southern
|
Kansas City, MO-New Orleans, LA
|
1940-1969
|
Southern Crescent
|
|
Boston, MA-New Orleans, LA
|
|
Southern Michigan Express
|
Detroit and Mackinac Railway
|
Detroit, MI-Cheboygan, MI
|
|
Southerner
|
Pennsylvania and Southern
|
New York, NY-New Orleans, LA
|
1941-
|
Southwest Chief
|
Amtrak
|
Chicago, IL-Los Angeles, CA
|
1971-present
|
Southwestern Limited
|
New York Central
|
New York, NY-St Louis, MO
|
|
Spirit of California
|
Amtrak
|
Sacramento, CA-Los Angeles, CA
|
1981?-1983
|
Spirit of St. Louis
|
Pennsylvania
|
New York, NY-St Louis, MO
|
|
Sportsman
|
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
|
Detroit, MI-Grand Rapids, MI
|
|
State House
|
Amtrak
|
Chicago, IL-St. Louis, MO
|
|
State of Maine
|
New Haven Boston & Maine Maine Central
|
New York, NY-Bangor, ME
|
|
Statesman
|
|
Boston, MA-Washington, DC
|
|
Sundown
|
|
New York, NY-Boston, MA
|
|
Sun Tan Special
|
Southern Pacific
|
San Francisco, CA-Santa Cruz, CA
|
|
Sunset Limited
|
Southern Pacific
|
Los Angeles, CA-New Orleans, LA
|
1926-1971
|
Sunset Limited
|
Amtrak
|
Los Angeles, CA-Orlando, FL
|
1971-present
|
Sunshine Special
|
Missouri Pacific and Texas and Pacific
|
St. Louis-San Antonio
|
1915-1948
|
Super Chief
|
Santa Fe
|
Chicago, IL-Los Angeles, CA
|
1936-1971
|
Tennessean
|
Southern
|
Washington, DC-Memphis, TN
|
1941-1968
|
Texas Chief
|
Santa Fe
|
Chicago, IL-Galveston, TX
|
1936-1971
|
Texas Eagle
|
Missouri Pacific
|
St. Louis, MO - Galveston, TX / St. Louis, MO - San Antonio, TX / St. Louis, MO - El Paso, TX
|
1948- 1970
|
Texas Eagle
|
Amtrak
|
Chicago, IL-San Antonio, TX
|
|
Texas Rocket
|
Rock Island
|
Fort Worth, TX-Houston, TX Kansas City, MO-Dallas, TX
|
1937-1938 1938-
|
Texas Special
|
Frisco - Katy
|
St. Louis, MO-San Antonio, TX
|
|
Texas Zephyr
|
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
|
Denver, CO-Dallas, TX
|
1940-
|
Tex-Mex Express
|
Texas Mexican Railway
|
Corpus Christi, TX - Laredo, TX
|
|
Thoroughbred
|
Monon Railroad
|
Chicago, IL-Louisville, KY
|
1948-
|
Three Rivers
|
Amtrak
|
New York, NY-Chicago, IL
|
1971-2005
|
Timberliner
|
New York Central
|
Detroit, MI-Mackinaw City, MI
|
|
Tippecanoe
|
Monon Railroad
|
Chicago, IL-Indianapolis, IN
|
1947-
|
Toledo - Detroit Express
|
New York Central
|
Detroit, MI-Toledo, OH
|
|
Tom Taber Express
|
Lackawanna, Erie Lackawanna, Conrail, New Jersey Transit
|
Hoboken, New Jersey-Dover, New Jersey
|
1940s-1996
|
Torpedo
|
Ann Arbor
|
Frankfort, MI-Toledo, OH
|
|
Tourist Flyer
|
Santa Fe
|
San Francisco, CA-Chicago, IL
|
|
Treasure Island Special
|
Union Pacific
|
Chicago, IL-San Francisco, CA
|
1939-
|
The Tulsan
|
Santa Fe
|
Chicago, IL-Tulsa, Oklahoma
|
|
Turboliner
|
Amtrak
|
New York, NY-upstate New York (exact route unknown) Chicago, IL-Milwaukee, WI Chicago, IL-Detroit, MI
|
1970s–1995 mid-1970s–early 1980s
|
Turbo (train)
|
Amtrak
|
New York, NY-Boston, MA
|
1971-
|
Twentieth Century Limited
|
New York Central
|
New York, NY-Chicago, IL
|
1902-1967
|
Twilight Limited
|
New York Central
|
Chicago, IL-Detroit, MI
|
|
Twin Cities 400
|
Chicago and North Western Railway
|
Chicago,IL-Minneapolis,MN-Saint Paul, MN
|
|
Twin Cities Hiawatha
|
Milwaukee Road
|
Chicago, IL-St. Paul, MN
|
1935-
|
Twin Star Rocket
|
Rock Island
|
Minneapolis, MN-Houston, TX
|
1945-
|
Valley 400
|
Chicago and North Western Railway
|
Chicago, IL-Green Bay, WI
|
|
Valley Eagle
|
Missouri Pacific
|
Brownsville, TX - Corpus Christi, TX - Houston, TX
|
|
Valley Express
|
New York Central
|
Chicago, IL-Detroit, MI
|
|
Valley Flyer
|
Santa Fe
|
Oakland, CA-Bakersfield, CA
|
|
Valley Forge
|
|
New York, NY-Harrisburg, PA
|
|
Valpo Local
|
Pennsylvania Railroad, Penn Central, Conrail, Amtrak
|
Chicago, IL-Valparaiso, Ind
|
1869-1991
|
Vermonter
|
Amtrak
|
Washington, DC-St. Albans, VT
|
|
Wabash Cannonball
|
Wabash
|
Detroit, MI-St. Louis, MO
|
??-1971
|
Washington - Detroit Limited
|
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
|
Detroit, MI-Baltimore, MD
|
|
Washington Irving
|
New York Central
|
New York, NY-Albany, NY
|
|
Water Level Express
|
New York Central
|
New York, NY-Buffalo, NY
|
|
Water Level Limited
|
New York Central
|
Chicago, IL-Toledo, OH
|
|
Western Express
|
New York Central
|
Chicago, IL-Detroit, MI
|
|
Western Star
|
Great Northern
|
|
|
Whippoorwill
|
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad
|
Chicago, IL-Evansville, IN
|
1946-
|
Wolverine
|
Amtrak
|
Chicago, IL-Pontiac, MI
|
|
Wolverine
|
New York Central
|
Chicago, IL-Detroit, MI Chicago, IL-New York, NY
|
|
Xplorer
|
New York Central
|
Cleveland, OH-Cincinnati, OH
|
1956-
|
Zephyr Rocket
|
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and Rock Island
|
St. Louis, MO-Minneapolis, MN
|
1941-
|
Zephyrette
|
Western Pacific
|
Salt Lake City, UT-Oakland, CA
|
1950-
|