Related to the last post about the Amtrak Super High-Speed Northeast Corridor, here’s a personal project of mine from 2010 showing all of Amtrak’s train routes in the style of a subway map. Amtrak’s own map doesn’t break out the actual routes in any way, nor does it show all stations due to geographic limitations, which makes journey planning quite difficult in my opinion.

The two things my map really highlight are the incredible dominance of the Northeast Corridor in terms of service, and just how much of a hub Chicago is: 16 Amtrak routes terminate there! It also shows the paucity of high-speed rail in America. Just one route – the Acela along the Northeast corridor – even somewhat approaches that definition.

One day, I’d like to rework this map with all the Amtrak Thruways (connecting bus and rail services) shown as well. One day…

View the map and read more about it on my personal website.