List of major cities in U.S. lacking inter-city rail service

Several major cities and regional business centers in the continental United States lack Amtrak or some form of inter-city passenger rail service. Four of these metropolitan areas boast more than one million residents. However, some of these cities may be served by Thruway Motorcoach. Other than the service provided by the Alaska Railroad, there is no U.S. based long-distance passenger rail service outside of 46 of the contiguous states and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec. There is no inter-city passenger rail service to the states of South Dakota or Wyoming. For purposes of this list, a city is considered served if it is within 30 miles of an Amtrak or other inter-city passenger rail station. Unless otherwise noted, the provider of the last passenger service noted in each of the following cities was Amtrak. A partial list of the cities with a population of over 100,000 that are not served by some form of inter-city rail service is as follows (in order by decreasing population of metropolitan area):[1][2]

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City Metropolitan area population (2015 est.) Notes
Las Vegas, Nevada 2,000,759 Last service was the Desert Wind in 1997. Planned excursion service by Las Vegas Railway Express will start in Summer 2020.[3]
Columbus, Ohio 1,944,002 Last service was the National Limited in 1979. Largest city in the United States without rail transport of any kind.
Nashville, Tennessee 1,726,793 Last inter-city service was the Floridian in 1979. Proposed new service by Amtrak is in early talks.[4] Commuter rail service provided by the Music City Star.
Louisville, Kentucky 1,251,351 Last service was the Kentucky Cardinal in 2003.
Honolulu, Hawaii 953,207
Tulsa, Oklahoma 951,880 Last service was the Santa Fe's The Tulsan in 1971.
Knoxville, Tennessee 848,350 Last service was the Southern Railway's Pelican in 1970.
Allentown – Bethlehem – Easton, Pennsylvania 827,171 Last service was regional service in 1981, carried by SEPTA.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 815,298 Last service was the Kansas City Southern's Southern Belle in 1969. New service from New Orleans has been studied and has support.[5]
McAllen, Texas 806,552 Last service was the Southern Pacific's McAllen-Brownsville shuttle in 1952.
Dayton, Ohio - Springfield, Ohio 800,792 Last service was the National Limited in 1979.
North Port – Sarasota – Bradenton, Florida - Venice, Florida 768,918 Last service was the Seaboard Coast Line's Champion in 1971.[6]
Fort Myers, Florida 701,982 Last service was the Seaboard Coast Line's Champion in 1971.[7]
Colorado Springs, Colorado 668,353 Last service was Burlington Route's Texas Zephyr in 1967. New service planned as a new section of the Southwest Chief to Colorado Springs under study.[8]
Boise, Idaho 637,896 Last service was the Pioneer in 1997.
Des Moines, Iowa 588,999 Last service was the Rock Island's Des Moines Rocket and Corn Belt Rocket, both ending in 1967. There were plans for a new service from Chicago to Des Moines and Omaha but Iowa refused to provide funds for operations.[9]
Augusta, Georgia 590,146 Last traditional passenger service was by the Georgia Railroad in 1969, although the Georgia provided a little-used mixed train service until 1983.
Space Coast area (Cocoa Beach – Melbourne – Palm Bay – Titusville, Florida) 568,088 Last had passenger service in 1968, when the Florida East Coast Railroad ended its operations. The last interstate trains were in 1963 when the East Coast Champion and City of Miami routes were moved inland from the Atlantic Coast. The Havana Special ended entirely that year. However, a private regional rail line, Virgin Trains USA, is now open between Miami and West Palm Beach with an extension planned to Orlando. It will use the FEC right-of-way, and a newly built segment Cocoa Beach-Orlando.
Scranton – Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 558,166 Last service was the Erie Lackawanna's Lake Cities in 1970.
Youngstown, Ohio 549,885 Last service was the Three Rivers in 2005.
Chattanooga, Tennessee 547,776 Last service was the Louisville and Nashville's The Georgian in 1971. New service possible via proposed Nashville route mentioned above.[10]
Fayetteville, Arkansas 513,559 Last service was a section of the Frisco's Meteor in 1965.
Tri-Cities area (Kingsport/Johnson City/Bristol, Tennessee, Bristol, Virginia) 509,690 Last service was the Norfolk and Western and Southern Railway's Birmingham Special in 1971. Virginia officials are working on bringing Amtrak service to Bristol.[11][12]
Santa Rosa, California 502,146 Last intercity service was an unnamed Northwestern Pacific Railroad train in 1958. Currently served by the SMART commuter rail line.
Lexington, Kentucky 485,023 Last service was the Southern Railway's Royal Palm in 1970 and the Chesapeake and Ohio's George Washington in 1971.
Pensacola, Florida 478,043 Service suspended August 2005, on Sunset Limited east of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. It is proposed to return service to the line.
Shreveport – Bossier City, Louisiana 447,193 Last service was the Kansas City Southern's Southern Belle in 1969. Planned Amtrak service from Birmingham to Dallas/Fort Worth via Shreveport never materialized, service from the city to Dallas being studied by DOT.[13]
Treasure Coast area (Port St. Lucie – Sebastian – Vero Beach, Florida 445,558 Last had passenger service in 1968, when the Florida East Coast Railroad ended its operations. The last interstate trains were in 1963 when the East Coast Champion and City of Miami routes were moved inland from the Atlantic Coast. The Havana Special ended entirely that year. However, a private regional rail service, Virgin Trains USA, is now open Miami-West Palm Beach with an extension planned to Orlando. It will use the FEC right-of-way, and a newly built segment Cocoa Beach-Orlando.
Springfield, Missouri 444,617 Last service was the Frisco's Meteor and Will Rogers in 1967.
Corpus Christi, Texas 437,109 Last service was the Texas Mexican Railway's Tex Mex Express in 1986.
Asheville, North Carolina 432,406 Last service was the Southern Railway's Asheville Special in 1975.
Huntsville, Alabama 430,734 Last service was the Southern Railway's Tennessean in 1968.
Gulfport – Biloxi – Pascagoula, Mississippi 427,322 Service suspended August 2005, on Sunset Limited east of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. It is proposed to return service to the line.
Brownsville, Texas 422,156 Last service was the Missouri Pacific Railroad's Pioneer in 1964.
Mobile, Alabama 413,936 Service suspended August 2005, on Sunset Limited east of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. It is proposed to return service to the line.
Manchester – Nashua, New Hampshire 406,678 Last service was unnamed successor train to the Boston and Maine's Alouette in 1965. Extension of MBTA's Lowell Line proposed.
Salisbury – Ocean City, Maryland 395,300 Last service was the Pennsylvania Railroad's Del-Mar-Va Express in 1958.
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 394,542 Last service was a mixed train operated by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1955.[14]
Saginaw, Michigan 389,110 Last service was the New York Central's local service to the area in 1964.[15]
Quad Cities area (Davenport/Bettendorf, Iowa, Rock Island/Moline, Illinois) 382,630 Last service was the Rock Island's Quad Cities Rocket in 1979. New service possible in 2018?.[16]
Peoria, Illinois 380,447 Last service was the Prairie Marksman in 1981. However, Amtrak continued to stop at Chillicothe, 20 miles north, until 1996. New service to Peoria was studied by Illinois DOT.[17]
Montgomery, Alabama 377,149 Last service was the Gulf Breeze in 1995.
Tallahassee, Florida 375,371 Service suspended August 2005, on Sunset Limited east of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. It is proposed to return service to the line.
Naples, Florida 372,880 Last service was local connector Atlantic Coast Line service in the 1950s, between Ft. Myers and Naples.
Appleton – Oshkosh – Neenah, Wisconsin 367,516 Last service was an unnamed remnant of the Chicago and North Western's Peninsula 400 in 1971.
Rockford, Illinois 344,623 Last service was the Black Hawk in 1981. New service that was planned by 2015 was suspended by Illinois Governor Rauner.[18]
Ocala, Florida 343,254 Last service was the Palmetto in 2004, when Amtrak truncated the run to Savannah, Georgia.
Midland – Odessa, Texas 320,513 Last service was the Missouri Pacific's West Texas Eagle in 1969.
Evansville, Indiana 313,433 Last service was the Louisville and Nashville's The Georgian in 1971.
Green Bay, Wisconsin 311,098 Last service was an unnamed remnant of the Chicago and North Western's Peninsula 400 in 1971.
Columbus, Georgia 310,531 Last service was the Illinois Central's City of Miami in 1971.
Lubbock, Texas 297,669 Last service was the Santa Fe's West Texas Express in 1967.
Waterbury, Connecticut 287,768 Last inter-city service was an unnamed New Haven service in 1958. Currently served by Metro-North Railroad's Waterbury Branch
Clarksville, Tennessee 281,021 Last service was a Memphis section of the L&N's Pan-American in 1965.
Fort Smith, Arkansas 280,241 Last service was a section of the Frisco's Meteor in 1965.
Twin Ports area (Duluth, Minnesota, Superior, Wisconsin) 279,601 Last service was the North Star in 1985. There are plans to restore passenger service from St. Paul before 2020.[19]
Gainesville, Florida 277,163 Last service was the Seaboard Coast Line's South Wind in 1971, when the train was rerouted via Orlando.
Atlantic City, New Jersey 275,549 Last inter-city service was the Atlantic City Express in 1995. Currently served by NJ Transit's Atlantic City Line.
Bloomsburg–Berwick–Sunbury, Pennsylvania 264,739 Last service was a Penn Central remnant of the Pennsylvania Railroad's Buffalo Day Express in 1971.[20]
Wilmington, North Carolina 263,429 Last service was the Seaboard Coast Line's Palmetto in 1968.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 261,761 Last service was the Rock Island's Zephyr Rocket on April 8, 1967, with the Milwaukee Road ending service on the combined "City of Everywhere" on May 30, 1971 at nearby Marion.[21][22]
Laredo, Texas 259,172 Last service was the Inter-American in 1981.
Amarillo, Texas 257,578 Last service was the Santa Fe's San Francisco Chief in 1971.
Binghamton, New York 251,725 Last service was the Erie Lackawanna's Lake Cities in 1970.
North Las Vegas, Nevada 249,180 Last service was the Desert Wind at Las Vegas in 1997.
Yakima, Washington 243,231 Last service was in 1981 when the Empire Builder was rerouted through Everett, Washington.
Sioux Falls, South Dakota 237,251 Last service was a Sioux Falls section of the Milwaukee Road's Arrow in September 1965.
College Station – Bryan, Texas 234,501 Last service was the Dallas-Houston section of the Texas Eagle in 1995.
Macon, Georgia 232,723 Last service was the Central of Georgia's Nancy Hanks II in 1971.
Lima-Van Wert-Celina, Ohio 221,838 Last service was in 1991 when the Broadway Limited and the Capitol Limited were rerouted.
Medford, Oregon 217,479 Last service was the Southern Pacific's River Rogue in the 1950s.
Rochester, Minnesota 209,607 Last service was the Chicago and North Western Railroad's Rochester 400 in 1963.
Las Cruces, New Mexico 209,233 Last service was the Santa Fe's El Pasoan in 1968.
Bay Minette – Daphne – Fairhope – Foley, Alabama 203,709 Last service was the Gulf Breeze in 1995. Amtrak's Sunset Limited made stops in nearby Atmore, Alabama, Mobile, Alabama and Pensacola, Florida until service was suspended in 2005 during Hurricane Katrina.
Crestview – Fort Walton Beach – Destin, Florida 197,709 Service suspended August 2005, on Sunset Limited east of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. It is proposed to return service to the line.
Athens, Georgia 196,425 Last service was the Seaboard Coast Line's Silver Comet in 1969.
Elmira – Corning, New York 187,820 Last service was the Erie Lackawanna's Lake Cities in 1970.
Punta Gorda, Florida – Port Charlotte, Florida - Boca Grande 182,033 Last service was Seaboard Air Line Railroad passenger service in the 1950s.
Panama City, Florida 181,184 Last service was Atlanta and St. Andrews Bay Railroad passenger service in 1957.
Joplin, Missouri 174,327 Last service was the Kansas City Southern's Southern Belle in 1969.
Dover, Delaware 173,332 Last service was the Pennsylvania Railroad's Blue Diamond in 1965.
Terre Haute, Indiana 170,943 Last service was the National Limited in 1979.
Monroe, Louisiana 170,053 Last service was a Little Rock-Alexandria section of the Missouri Pacific's Texas Eagle in 1967.
East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania 169,842 Last service was the Erie Lackawanna's Lake Cities in 1970.
Waterloo – Cedar Falls, Iowa 168,747 Last service was the Illinois Central's Hawkeye in 1971.
Abilene, Texas 166,963 Last service was the Missouri Pacific's West Texas Eagle in 1969.
Bowling Green, Kentucky 165,732 Last service was the Floridian in 1979.
Blacksburg – Christiansburg, Virginia 162,958 Last service was the Hilltopper in 1979. New service being studied by VDOT.[23]
Billings, Montana 162,848 Last service was the North Coast Hiawatha in 1979.
Eau Claire – Menomonie, Wisconsin 161,151 Last service was the Chicago and North Western Railroad's Twin Cities 400 in 1963.
Fort Collins, Colorado 161,000 Last service was the Burlington Route's Shoshone in 1967.
Pueblo, Colorado 160,852 Last service was a Denver-La Junta connecting train operated by the Santa Fe Railway in 1971. New service planned as a new section of the Southwest Chief to Colorado Springs under study.[24]
Janesville, Wisconsin 160,418 Last service was the Lake Country Limited in 2001.
Auburn – Opelika, Alabama 158,991 Last service was the Illinois Central Railroad's City of Miami serving Opelika, part of the Auburn MSA, which had its last run in 1971.
Iowa City, Iowa 158,231 Last service was the Rock Island's Des Moines Rocket and Corn Belt Rocket. New service probable around 2016?.[25]
Albany, Georgia 157,308 Last service was the Illinois Central's City of Miami in 1971.
Williamsport, Pennsylvania 155,349 Last service was a Penn Central remnant of the Pennsylvania Railroad's Buffalo Day Express in 1971.
Vineland – Millville – Bridgeton, New Jersey 155,261 Last service was Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines commuter rail service in 1971.
Alexandria, Louisiana 153,922 Last service was the Kansas City Southern's Southern Belle in 1969.
Bangor, Maine 153,746 Last service was the Boston and Maine's State of Maine Express and Bar Harbor Express in 1960. Extension of Downeaster service studied.
Chambersburg – Waynesboro, Pennsylvania 152,903 Last service was the Pennsylvania Railroad's Nos. 638-645 (part of unnamed New York-Roanoke route via the Norfolk & Western's Shenandoah Route) in 1962.
Wichita Falls, Texas 151,306 Last service was the Burlington Route's Texas Zephyr in 1967.
Ithaca – Cortland, New York 150,900 Last service was the Lehigh Valley's Maple Leaf in 1961.
Coeur d'Alene 150,128 Last service was by Great Northern Railway. However, Spokane, Washington, 34 miles to the west, has Amtrak service in the Empire Builder.
Decatur, Alabama 150,125 Last service was the Floridian in 1979.
Florence – Muscle Shoals, Alabama 146,988 Last service was the Southern Railway's Tennessean in 1968.
Wheeling, West Virginia 146,420 Last service was the Baltimore and Ohio's Chicago-West Virginia Night Express in 1961.
Dothan, Alabama 145,639 Last service was the Floridian in 1979.
St. George, Utah 144,809 Although no line (nor any railroad tracks) runs through, the city is connected to Amtrak by Thruway Motorcoach.
Traverse City, Michigan 144,411 Last service was an unnamed C&O/B&O Railroad train in 1967. New service under study.
Sioux City, Iowa 144,062 Last service was the Illinois Central's Hawkeye in 1971.
Dalton, Georgia 142,227 Last service was the Louisville and Nashville's The Georgian in 1971.
Homosassa Springs, Florida 140,443 Last service was Atlantic Coast Line Railroad passenger service in 1957.
Tupelo, Mississippi 139,671 Last service was the Frisco and Southern Railway's Kansas City-Florida Special in 1964.
Rapid City, South Dakota 138,738 Last service was the Milwaukee Road's Sioux in 1951, when the run was truncated to Canton, South Dakota.
Morgantown, West Virginia 138,176 Last service was an unnamed Baltimore and Ohio Railroad train in 1953.
Bloomington, Indiana 137,974 Last service was the Floridian in 1979.
Napa, California 136,484 Last intercity service was an unnamed Southern Pacific train in 1929. Currently served by the Napa Valley Wine Train.
Jamestown – Dunkirk – Fredonia, New York 134,905 Last service was the Erie Lackawanna's Lake Cities in 1970. Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited passes through Dunkirk, but does not stop.
Manhattan, Kansas 134,804 Last service was the Union Pacific's City of Kansas City in 1971.
Lawton, Oklahoma 131,089 Last service was the Frisco's Meteor in 1967.
Idaho Falls 130,374 The last long distance train was the Union Pacific's Butte Special in 1971.
Mansfield, Ohio 124,475 Last service was with the Penn Central's Manhattan Limited and Pennsylvania Limited, both in 1971.
Bismarck, North Dakota 120,060 Last service was the North Coast Hiawatha in 1979.
The Villages, Florida 117,210 Last service was the Palmetto in 2004, when Amtrak truncated the run to Savannah, Georgia.
Watertown, New York-Fort Drum 116,229 Last service was the New York Central Railroad's regional service in 1964.
Missoula, Montana 116,130 Last service was the North Coast Hiawatha in 1979.
Cheyenne, Wyoming 116,070 Last service was the Pioneer in 1997.
Owensboro, Kentucky 116,020 Last service was an unnamed L&N train in 1958.
Jackson, Tennessee 115,425 Last service the Illinois Central's City of Miami train in 1971.
Bozeman, Montana 114,434 Last service was the North Coast Hiawatha in 1979.
Elizabethtown, Kentucky 113,443 Last service was the L&N's Pan-American in 1971.
Brunswick, Georgia 112,370 Last service was the Southern Railway's Kansas City-Florida Special in 1964.
Decatur, Illinois 110,768 Last service was the Illini in 1983, when the run was truncated to Champaign, Illinois.
Temecula, California 110,012 Never had train service.
Lowell, Massachusetts 108,335 Last inter-city service was the Boston and Maine's State of Maine in 1960. Currently served by MBTA's Lowell Line
Bay City, Michigan 107,771 Last service was Beeliner service of the New York Central in 1964.
Sumter, South Carolina 106,512 Last service was a Florence, SC -- Augusta, GA section of the Seaboard Coast Line's Champion in 1970.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 101,637 Last service was Western Maryland Railway passenger service in 1942.

In addition, the following cities are not directly served by inter-city rail service, but have a rail station within 30 miles of the city.

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City Metropolitan area population (2012 est.) Notes
Phoenix, Arizona 4,329,534 Direct service ended in June 1996 after reroute of Amtrak's Sunset Limited. Service 30 miles to the south in Maricopa, Arizona, a nearby suburb.
Minneapolis, Minnesota 3,114,035 Lost direct service in 1978 when Amtrak shifted intercity service to St. Paul, Minnesota. Gained commuter service in 2009.
Albany, New York 1,171,593 Lost direct service in 1981 when intercity service was shifted to adjacent Rensselaer, New York.
Akron, Ohio 702,262 Direct service gained in 1998 with the rerouting of the Broadway Limited, then lost in 2005 with the discontinuance of the Three Rivers. Service on the Capitol Limited 24 miles to the southeast at Alliance, Ohio.
Winston–Salem, North Carolina 659,330 Last service was by Southern Railway in 1970. Service 16 miles to the Southeast in High Point, North Carolina.
Wichita, Kansas 636,105 Last direct service was the Lone Star in 1979. Service 25 miles to the north at Newton, Kansas. New direct service being studied with extension of Heartland Flyer to Kansas City or Newton.[26]
Madison, Wisconsin 620,778 Last direct service was the Milwaukee Road's Varsity and Sioux in 1971. Service 28 miles to the northeast in Columbus, Wisconsin. New direct service between Madison and Chicago via Milwaukee was planned but Wisconsin governor Scott Walker rejected federal funding for the project.[27][28]
Ogden, Utah 612,441 Last direct inter-city service was the Pioneer in 1997. Currently directly served by the Utah Transit Authority's FrontRunner commuter rail. Amtrak service 30 miles to the south in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Daytona Beach, Florida 600,756 Last had passenger service in 1968, when the Florida East Coast Railroad ended its operations. The last interstate trains were in 1963 when the East Coast Champion and City of Miami routes were moved inland from the Atlantic Coast. The Havana Special ended entirely that year. Amtrak trains stop at DeLand Station, 28 miles to the west.
Long Beach, California 462,257 Service 23 miles to the north at Los Angeles Union Station.
York, Pennsylvania 442,867 Service 24 miles to the east at Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Fort Wayne, Indiana 429,820 Last direct service was in 1990, when the Broadway Limited rerouted through Nappanee, Indiana. Service 25 miles to the north at Waterloo, Indiana.
Reading, Pennsylvania 413,521 Last direct service was regional service in 1981, carried by SEPTA. Service 27 miles to the southwest at Lancaster, Pennsylvania. No transit connection.
Canton, Ohio 402,976 Last direct service was in 1990, when the Broadway Limited rerouted through Nappanee, Indiana. Service 23 miles to the northeast in Alliance, Ohio.
Tri-Valley, California 361,000 Service to the west in Hayward, California. Commuter rail provided by Altamont Corridor Express.
Boulder, Colorado 294,567 Last direct service was the Burlington Route's Shoshone in 1967. Service 25 miles to the southeast at Denver, Colorado.
Chula Vista, California 270,471 Service 9 miles to the northwest at San Diego, California.
Waco, Texas 268,696 Service 16 miles to the southwest at McGregor, Texas.
Burlington, Vermont 214,796 Last direct inter-city service was the Rutland Railroad's Green Mountain Flyer and Mount Royal in 1953. Service 7 miles away at Essex Junction, Vermont. Short-lived commuter rail service called the Champlain Flyer ran 2000-2003. New direct inter-city service planned as an extension of the Ethan Allen Express by 2021.
Fontana, California 206,337 Service 8 miles away at San Bernardino
Moreno Valley, California 202,958 Service 15 miles away at San Bernardino
Huntington Beach, California 200,652 Service 15 miles away at Santa Ana, California
Elk Grove, California 169,743 Service planned as part of expanded San Joaquin services in 2020.[29] Service 16 miles northwest at Sacramento, California.
Columbia, Missouri 168,535 Service 25 miles to the southeast in Jefferson City, Missouri.
State College, Pennsylvania 153,990 Service 30 miles to the southeast in Lewistown, Pennsylvania.
Ottawa, Illinois 153,182 Last direct service was the Rock Island's Quad City Rocket and Peoria Rocket, both ending in 1978. Service 16 miles to the north at Mendota, Illinois.
Escondido, California 150,824 Last direct service was mixed train service in the 1940s to Oceanside, 21 miles to the west. Pacific Surfliner service is available at Oceanside.
Bellevue, Washington 144,444 Service 10 miles to the west at Seattle, Washington
Santa Fe, New Mexico 144,170 Inter-city service 14 miles to the southeast at Lamy, New Mexico. Commuter rail service provided by the New Mexico Rail Runner Express.
Torrance, California 147,155 Service 20 miles north in Los Angeles.
Lebanon, Pennsylvania 135,468 Service 25 miles to the south at Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Visalia, California 129,529 Passenger service to the city ended in the 1950s or 1960s. However Amtrak's San Joaquin trains stop by at Hanford 21 miles to the west.
Concord, California 128,726 Service 9 miles to the northwest at Martinez, California.
Kent, Washington 127,514 Service 17 miles to the southwest at Tacoma, Washington.
Vallejo, California 120,558 Service 13 miles to the southeast at Martinez, California.
Santa Maria, California 108,470 Service 8 miles to the west at Guadalupe, California.
Norwalk, California 106,178 Currently served by Metrolink. Service 12 miles to the east at Fullerton, California.

Other cities are not served directly due to inconvenient water barriers:

  • San Francisco Peninsula – The San Francisco Bay separates the peninsula from the rest of the national rail network. Passenger service ended in 1971, when the Del Monte was discontinued and the Coast Daylight was rerouted to Oakland with the formation of Amtrak. That service was later rerouted to continue north to Portland and renamed the Coast Starlight. The BART commuter heavy rail system operates a trans-bay tube underneath the bay with connections in Richmond, Oakland, and . Caltrain connects the length of the bay shore to Amtrak at San Jose. However, since the late 1990s, Amtrak has worked on plans to resume the Coast Daylight from San Francisco to Los Angeles.[30]
    • San Francisco, California - Trains stop across San Francisco Bay in Oakland and Emeryville. Whereas trains once went from Oakland to San Francisco, they had been replaced by auto traffic by the 1950s. Proposals to add a San Francisco stop to the San Jose-Sacramento Capitol Corridor are also being seriously considered.[31]
    • Daly City, California - Bypassed after completion of the Bayshore Cutoff in 1907. BART tracks were eventually laid in the former rail right of way, but the city has never been reconnected to the national network.
    • San Mateo, California - nearest connection to the northeast in Hayward, California.
  • St. Petersburg, Florida - trains stop across Tampa Bay in Tampa. Trains had previously crossed the bay into St. Petersburg. The city lost direct service across the bay when CSX lacked adequate funds to maintain the bridge across the bay. There is Thruway Bus Service at 110th Avenue north of City Limits off US19 to Tampa Union Station (PSTA local bus route 34 passes near this location). Otherwise the only other method of transportation is taxi. The TECO Line Streetcar and HART buses both do not connect with the two areas, although express bus service exists between PSTA and HART.

Amtrak provides no service to Mexico. From 1973 to 1981 Amtrak operated the Inter-American, which allowed for transfers between Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas for connecting service with the Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México. The closest Amtrak service to Mexico may be found at stations along the western portion of the Sunset Limited and southwestern portion of the Texas Eagle in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California; as well as the Pacific Surfliner service to Union Station in San Diego.

Phoenix, Arizona is served via Thruway Motorcoach from the Southwest Chief at Flagstaff, Arizona. The Sunset Limited stops three times a week at Maricopa, roughly 30 miles (48 km) south of the city; private taxis and the Maricopa MAX express bus are the only transportation from there to metro Phoenix, although MAX bus schedules do not coincide with Amtrak, which arrives during the night. Phoenix lost direct service in June 1996 after Southern Pacific (now part of the Union Pacific) threatened to abandon the line from Yuma.

Amtrak has studied rail lines formerly canceled that could renew service to some cities. Cities involved include Boise, Mobile, Tallahassee, the Quad Cities (four adjoining cities in northwest Illinois and southeastern Iowa),[25][32] Billings, and Wichita.[33] Proposals for high-speed rail could also restore service for several cities. Other services Amtrak could restore include the Pioneer (serving Chicago-Denver-Seattle via the California Zephyr), the Black Hawk (Chicago-Dubuque, eastern Iowa), the North Coast Hiawatha (serving Chicago-Fargo-Seattle via the Montana Rail Link), and the New Orleans-Orlando segment of the Sunset Limited.

See also

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Further reading
  • Sanders, Craig (2006). Amtrak in the Heartland. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-34705-3.
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