Amtrak Railroad Routes Across All U.S. States

Amtrak Routes from the Federal Railroad Administration provides a single line representation of unique passenger rail routes across the United States. The dataset offers a geographic reference of the Amtrak system at a scale of 1:24,000 or better. It covers all 50 states and the District of Columbia as part of the National Transportation Atlas Database.

Use Cases

• Analyze the geographic distribution and connectivity of the Linear Rail network across all 50 states.
• Perform spatial analysis on the Route network to calculate distances or proximity to urban centers.
• Integrate the Vector line data with demographic or economic datasets for transportation planning studies.
• Use the National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD) framework to join this data with other transportation layers.

Strengths

• Provides national coverage, including all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
• Maintained by authoritative sources: the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).
• Features a high-resolution geographic reference at a scale of 1:24,000 or better.

Limitations

• The specific number of routes (rows) and descriptive attributes (columns) is not provided in the input.
• As a linear representation, it may not contain detailed station-level or operational schedule data.
• The description does not specify the temporal coverage or historical versions of the routes.

Provenance

Source

Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)/Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).

Collection Method

Generated from the North American Railroad Network (Amtrak) as a single line representation of unique routes.

Freshness

Updated as of September 30, 2025, with a platform record last updated on November 21, 2025.

Geography

All 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.