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Night trains from New Orleans

2 sleeper routes · United States

2 night trains serve New Orleans in the TrainRouter atlas — sleeper routes to New York, Chicago. The longest is the Crescent at 2,216 km (≈ 30 h); the oldest service on this list has run since 1925. Board in the evening, wake up 2,216 km closer — every route below links to its full story and the world railway map.

Crescent

New York → New Orleans · 2,216 km · ≈ 30 h · Amtrak · Amtrak Viewliner II

Heir to the 1925 Crescent Limited — Manhattan to the French Quarter past Blue Ridge foothills, midnight Atlanta and a dawn crawl across Lake Pontchartrain.

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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