Night trains
Night trains from New York
4 sleeper routes · United States
4 night trains serve New York in the TrainRouter atlas — sleeper routes to Miami, New Orleans, Chicago. The longest is the Silver Meteor at 2,235 km (≈ 28 h); the oldest service on this list has run since 1897. Board in the evening, wake up 2,235 km closer — every route below links to its full story and the world railway map.
Silver Meteor
New York → Miami · 2,235 km · ≈ 28 h · Amtrak · Amtrak Viewliner II
The Seaboard streamliner that opened Florida’s diesel age in 1939 — 28 hours from Penn Station to palm-lined Miami, still running nightly.
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.
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.
Night trains from other cities
- Night trains from Chicago 6 routes
- Night trains from Bangkok 4 routes
- Night trains from Brisbane 4 routes
- Night trains from Moscow 4 routes
- Night trains from Paris 4 routes
- Night trains from Stockholm 3 routes
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- Night trains from Miami 2 routes
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- Night trains from New Orleans 2 routes
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