Amtrak operates the following intercity and long-distance passenger train routes.
2,206 miles (Chicago–Seattle)
959 (Chicago – New York)
186,125 to Lynchburg (2013) 578,368 to Newport News (2013) 127,937 to Norfolk (2013)
280 (Bakersfield–Sacramento)
2,728 (Chicago – Los Angeles, 2013)
*Maple Leaf is serviced by Via Rail while in Canadian territory
This list included current and discontinued routes.
Note that intercity trains were operated after 1971 by the Alaska Railroad, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad, Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, Georgia Railroad, Reading Company, and Southern Railway. The Southern Railway and D&RGW routes were taken over by Amtrak in 1979 and 1983 respectively. In addition, the Canadian Pacific Railway's Atlantic, taken over by Via Rail in 1978, crossed northern Maine.
Most Northeast Corridor trains were renamed NortheastDirect in the late 1990s, then Acela Regional and later just Regional. Currently most of the below named trains are called Northeast Regional. Some of these train names were changed prior to the late 1990s.