Slowest Amtrak scheduled route segment?

[Phil S]

Slowest average scheduled speed between two scheduled stops? Cardinal Dyer/Chicago comes to mind. Northbound I get an average speed of just over 18 MPH! Southbound it's quite a bit faster, relatively speaking of course.

Anything slower?

 

[fairviewroad]

Slowest average scheduled speed between two scheduled stops? Cardinal Dyer/Chicago comes to mind. Northbound I get an average speed of just over 18 MPH! Southbound it's quite a bit faster, relatively speaking of course.

Anything slower?

Or to put it another way, what Amtrak segment has the most padding? Probably a segment between the penultimate and final stops of a long-distance train.

 

[norfolkwesternhenry]

actual or with padding? There is often up to an hour of padding, and a train will arrive early, but I would guess somewhere on the BBRR, on the Cardinal

 

[A Voice]

Boston - on the Northeast Corridor of all places - from South Station to Back Bay Station. Carded as five minutes for one mile, or an average speed of 12 mph. Train 67 takes six minutes, or an average speed of just ten miles per hour.

Of course, what is the actual *exact* distance between stations, not just what is listed in a timetable? Isn't it about 1 1/4 miles?

 

[Bob Dylan]

For the Long Distance Trains, the SWC #3 is Carded for 1 Hour and 45 minutes for the 25 miles between Fullerton and LAX,the Terminal Station!

Most LD Trains have similar padding between their next to last stop and the Terminal stop!

 

[JayPea]

The ten miles between Vancouver and Portland on #11 has a scheduled running time of 52 minutes, or a whopping 11.5 MPH.

 

[Phil S]

Van/Pdx it is then.

 

[George K]

Van/Pdx it is then.

Boston Back Bay to Boston South Station is 1 mile.

6 minutes for that segment.

10 mph.

 

[Paul CHI]

Holland to Grand Rapids on the Pere Marquette ranks right up (down?) there: 1:05 for 25 miles.

 

[brianpmcdonnell17]

On the Silver Service there is:

WPK-ORL 23 minutes for 5 miles is about 13 MPH.

ALX-WAS 35 minutes for 9 miles is about 15 MPH.

 

[chakk]

Roseville to Sacramento on the CZ westbound is alloted 76 minutes for a 17 mile journey, which comes out to 13.4 mph

 

[Cho Cho Charlie]

I don't know if its still true, but the last time I took the Vermonter, I could have gotten out and walked faster. I am sure we were doing under 5 mph for a long stretch of track in VT.

I joked that I could have jumped off, walked up ahead, did some antique shopping, see a movie, and then jump back on the train as it passed by.