Night trains
Night trains from Chicago
6 sleeper routes · United States
6 night trains serve Chicago in the TrainRouter atlas — sleeper routes to Seattle, Miami, San Antonio, New York, New Orleans. The longest is the Empire Builder at 3,550 km (≈ 46 h); the oldest service on this list has run since 1897. Board in the evening, wake up 3,550 km closer — every route below links to its full story and the world railway map.
Empire Builder
Chicago → Seattle · 3,550 km · ≈ 46 h · Amtrak · Amtrak Superliner
Two nights tracing the Great Northern’s empire — skirting Glacier National Park along the Montana Rockies.
Floridian
Chicago → Miami · 3,340 km · ≈ 47 h · Amtrak · Amtrak Superliner
Born of a 2024 tunnel-works merger of two classic trains — one seat from Lake Michigan over the Alleghenies to Tampa and Miami, nearly two days aboard.
Texas Eagle
Chicago → San Antonio · 2,102 km · ≈ 32 h · Amtrak · Amtrak Superliner
A Missouri Pacific name kept alive from the Loop to the Alamo — with through sleepers to Los Angeles, one of the longest runs on the Amtrak map.
Cardinal
New York → Chicago · 1,844 km · ≈ 28 h · Amtrak · Amtrak Amfleet & Viewliner
Amtrak’s slowest way to Chicago and its prettiest — tri-weekly through Virginia horse country and the whitewater canyons of the New River Gorge.
Lake Shore Limited
New York → Chicago · 1,543 km · ≈ 19 h · Amtrak · Amtrak Viewliner II
Heir to the New York Central’s 1897 Water Level Route — up the Hudson at dusk, along Lake Erie by night, into Chicago with morning coffee.
City of New Orleans
Chicago → New Orleans · 1,500 km · 19 h 30 min · Amtrak · Superliner
Immortalized in Steve Goodman’s 1971 song — overnight down the Mississippi Delta past Memphis, Yazoo City and the Louisiana bayous.
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