Amtrak LAKE SHORE LIMITED

LAKE SHORE LIMITED runs between Pennsylvania Station, NY and Chicago Union Station, IL.

GE P42DC #64 engine between Albany, NY - Chicago, IL at Chicago Union Station

Route Map based on GPS record

GPS monitored Time - Speed / Altitude graph from Penn Station, NY (left) to Chicago Union Station, IL (right).
The maximum speed is 160km/h recorded about 2 hours after the departure between Poughkeepsie and Albany

Timetable

Viewliner's Sleeping Car

Roomette has double windows for one room

Each car has a sign board of the car number, e.g. #4911

Aisle is narrow

Daytime setting of Roomette

Steps for the upper bed

Wash basin

Toilet in the room

Dining Car

Kitchen

Menu

The dinner needs reservation, the conductor takes reservation in your room / sheet

Night setting of lower berth, the attendant makes up your berth during the dinner time

Upper berth

View from the upper berth

Steps for the upper berth

Complementary drink, coffee, orange juice, etc. on the aisle

A public shower space in the sleeping car,
water flow rate is very low, so you cannot shampoo

LAKE SHORE LIMITED from Penn station joins the same train from Boston at Albany-Rensselaer, NY

Good night...

Morning in the dining car

Arrival at Chicago Union Station

Coach car is round shape

Truck of Coach car

Baggage Car

Redcap

Head engine, GE P42DC #64, from Albany to Chicago