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Retired Amtrak Train Routes and Names
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The following Amtrak routes have been either discontinued or renamed. Discontinuance does not necessarily indicate loss of
rail service on a particular route. This list does not include the former names of individual trains on the Empire Service,
Hiawatha, or Northeast Corridor.
- Acela Regional - Service on the Northeast Corridor (renamed to Regional)
- Abraham Lincoln (discontinued)
- Arrowhead (discontinued)
- Atlantic City Express (discontinued)
- Big Apple (renamed to Keystone Service)
- Black Hawk (discontinued)
- Blue Ridge (discontinued)
- Blue Water Limited (renamed to International)
- Broadway Limited (renamed to Three Rivers)
- Calumet (discontinued)
- Cape Codder (discontinued)
- Carolina Coast (discontinued)
- Cascadia (renamed to Cascades)
- Champion (discontinued)
- Chesapeake (discontinued)
- Chief (discontinued)
- City of Las Vegas (discontinued)
- City of San Francisco (discontinued)
- Clocker (renamed to Regional)
- Coast Daylight (discontinued)
- Daylight (replaced by Coast Starlight)
- Denver Zephyr (discontinued)
- Desert Wind - Train #35 & #36: Chicago,IL to Los Angeles,CA (discontinued 1997)
- Dusquesne (replaced by Three Rivers/Pennsylvanian)
- East Wind (discontinued)
- Eagle (renamed to Texas Eagle)
- El Capitan (discontinued)
- Executive Sleeper (discontinued)
- Floridian (discontinued 1979)
- George Washington (renamed to Cardinal)
- Gulf Breeze (discontinued)
- Gulf Limited (discontinued)
- Gulf Wind (discontinued)
- Hilltopper (replaced by Cardinal)
- Hoosier State (replaced by Kentucky Cardinal)
- Indiana Connection (discontinued)
- Inter American (replaced by Texas Eagle)
- James Whitcomb Riley (renamed to Cardinal)
- Kentucky Cardinal - Train #850-851: Chicago,IL to Louisville,KY (discontinued 2003)
- Keystone Executive (replaced by Keystone Service)
- Lake Country Limited - Train #342-343: Chicago,IL to Janesville,WI (discontinued 2001)
- Lake Shore (discontinued [not Lake Shore Limited])
- Limited (discontinued)
- Lone Star (discontinued)
- Loop (discontinued)
- Manhattan Limited (never implemented)
- Meteor (renamed to Silver Meteor)
- Miamian (discontinued)
- Michigan Executive (discontinued)
- Montrealer (replaced by Vermonter)
- Mt Adams Talgo - Train #752 & #753: Seattle,WA to Portland,OR (renamed to Cascades)
- Mt Baker Intl - Train #760 & #761: Seattle,WA to Vancouver,BC,Canada (renamed to Cascades)
- Mt Ranier (renamed to Cascadia)
- National Chief - Train #15 & #16: Washington,DC to Los Angeles,CA (never implemented)
- National Limited (discontinued)
- National Limited (renamed to Spirit of St Louis)
- New Jerseyan (discontinued)
- New Yorker (discontinued)
- Niagara Rainbow (discontinued)
- Night Owl (replaced by Twilight Shoreliner)
- North Coast Hiawatha (discontinued)
- North Coast Limited (renamed to North Coast Hiawatha)
- North Star (renamed to Arrowhead)
- NortheastDirect - Service on the Northeast Corridor (renamed to Acela Regional)
- Pacific International (renamed to Mt Baker International)
- Panama Limited (renamed to City of New Orleans)
- Pioneer - Train #25 & #26: Chicago,IL to Seattle,WA (discontinued 1997)
- Potomac (discontinued)
- Potomac Special(discontinued)
- Prairie Marksman (discontinued)
- Puget Sound (renamed to Mt Ranier)
- Rio Grande Zephyr (discontinued)
- River Cities (discontinued)
- San Diegans - Trains #500's & #700's: San Diego,CA to San Luis Obispo,CA (renamed to Pacific Surfliner)
- San Francisco Zephyr (renamed to California Zephyr)
- Shawnee (renamed to Illini)
- Shenandoah (discontinued)
- Silver Palm - Train #89 & #90: New York,NY to Miami,FL (replaced by Palmetto)
- Silver Palm (discontinued)
- Silverliner Service (replaced by Keystone Service)
- Skyline Connection (never implemented)
- South Breeze (discontinued)
- South Wind (renamed to Floridian)
- Southwest Limited (renamed to Southwest Chief)
- Spirit of America (discontinued)
- Spirit of California (discontinued)
- Spirit of St Louis (discontinued)
- St Clair (renamed to Twilight Limited)
- Super Chief (renamed to Southwest Limited)
- Susquehanna (renamed to Keystone Service)
- Texan (discontinued)
- Texas Chief (discontinued)
- Texas Limited (replaced by Texas Eagle)
- Tidewater (discontinued)
- Twilight Shoreliner - Trains #66, 67, 76: Boston,MA to Newport News,VA (replaced by Federal)
- Twin Rocket (discontinued)
- Vacationer (discontinued)
- Valley Forge (renamed to Keystone Service)
- Washingtonian (renamed to Montrealer)
- Weekender (discontinued)
- West Coast Metroliner (discontinued)
- Willamette Valley (discontinued)
- Wishbone (discontinued)
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