Amtrak Car Transport

 Amtrak Facts

• During FY 2008 (Oct. 2007-Sept. 2008), Amtrak welcomed aboard more than 28.7 million passengers, representing the sixth straight fiscal year of record ridership when comparing the same routes.
  


• Amtrak other railroad passenger cars totaling 1,519, plus 469 locomotives, 80 Auto Train vehicle carriers and 101 baggage cars and owned equipment includes
  
  
  • Amfleet
    
  
  
  • Superliner
    
  
  
  • Viewliner
    
  
  
• Amtrak's Northeast Corridor is the busiest railroad in North America, with more than 2,600 trains operating over some portion of the Washington-Boston route each day.
  


• Amtrak operates a nationwide rail network, serving more than 500 destinations in 46 states on 21,000 miles of routes, with nearly 18,000 employees.

  

• Amtrak has 17 tunnels consisting of 29.7 miles of track and 1,186 bridges consisting of 42.5 miles of track.
  


• Amtrak has 17 tunnels consisting of 29.7 miles of track and 1,186 bridges consisting of 42.5 miles of track.
  


• An average of more than 78,000 passengers ride on up to 300 Amtrak trains per day.
  


• Amtrak owns three heavy maintenance facilities in Wilmington and Bear, Del., and Beech Grove, Ind., as well as other maintenance facilities in Washington, D.C.; New York City, Rensselaer and Niagara Falls, N.Y.; Boston; Hialeah, Fla.; Chicago; New Orleans; Los Angeles; Oakland; and Seattle.