City of New Orleans

For the city itself, see New Orleans, Louisiana.

The City of New Orleans is a passenger train operated by Amtrak between Chicago, Illinois and New Orleans, Louisiana. Before Amtrak's formation in 1971, the train was operated by the Illinois Central railroad along the same route. The 926-mile (1490 km) trip is currently completed in a scheduled 19.5 hours.

Illinois Central's City of New Orleans

Amtrak's City of New Orleans

The City of New Orleans is a train route operated by Amtrak in the central United States.

According to Amtrak's spring-summer 2004 system timetable, daily train #59 left Chicago's Union Station at 8:00pm and made stops at:

• Homewood at 8:53pm
• Kankakee at 9:23pm
• Champaign-Urbana at 10:34pm
• Mattoon at 11:13pm
• Effingham at 11:37pm
• Centralia at 12:25am
• Carbondale at 1:21am
• Fulton, Kentucky at 3:14
• Newbern-Dyersburg, Tennessee at 3:56am
• Memphis at 6:27am
• Greenwood, Mississippi at 9:00am
• Yazoo City at 9:51am
• Jackson at 11:20am
• Hazlehurst at 11:55am
• Brookhaven at 12:16pm
• McComb at 12:40pm
• Hammond, Louisiana at 1:34pm
• New Orleans at 3:31pm.

Other uses

"City of New Orleans" is a folk music song written and first performed by Steve Goodman and subsequently by many other artists, notably Arlo Guthrie and Willie Nelson. The song lyrics trace the trail of the train route (above) in celebrating the "disappearin' railroad blues".

External links

• Amtrak's City of New Orleans page