Saluki (Amtrak)
The Saluki is a 310-mile (499 km) passenger train operated by Amtrak running between Chicago and Carbondale, Illinois. The train is a part of the Illinois Service rail network and is partially funded by the Illinois Department of Transportation. The train service uses the same track as two other Amtrak trains, the City of New Orleans and the Illini, providing one additional daily round trip on the route.
The Saluki is an outgrowth of the Illini, which, along with the rest of the Illinois Service trains, posted record ridership levels in the 2005-2006 fiscal year. Combined with strong support from the communities through which the Illini runs, this made the addition of another train an obvious decision. Service on the route began on October 30, 2006.
The train gets its name from the saluki dog breed, which is the mascot of Southern Illinois University in the train's southern terminus of Carbondale.
Station stops
The Saluki, trains 391 southbound and 390 northbound, make the following station stops:
- Illinois
- Chicago Union Station
- Homewood station
- Kankakee station
- Gilman station
- Rantoul station
- Champaign-Urbana station
- Mattoon station
- Effingham station
- Centralia station
- Du Quoin station
- Carbondale station
