Crescent Route Atlas
New York City to New Orleans, Louisiana
Amtrak
Train Numbers 19 (southbound) and
20 (northbound)
Numbers 1-33 on the map represent the scheduled stops the Crescent makes between New York City and the "Crescent City" of New Orleans. Using the following links you can either choose to tour the entire route between NYC and New Orleans, or hop on the train at any station along the way and proceed in either direction from there.
Click here to start at the beginning or click on one of the stations below to start from there for your journey along the route of the historic "Southern Crescent".
Once on board..... click "next"
(toward New Orleans) or
"previous" 
(toward New
York City)
to take
the virtual rail journey at your leisure.
Stations on Amtrak's Crescent Route
New York State |
Virginia |
Georgia |
| 1 New York (NYP) | 8 Alexandria (ALX) | 22 Toccoa (TCA) |
| 9 Manassas (MSS) | 23 Gainesville (GNS) | |
New Jersey |
10 Culpeper (CLP) | 24 Atlanta (ATL) |
| 2 Newark (NWK) | 11 Charlottesville (CVS) |
|
| 3 Trenton (TRE) | 12 Lynchburg (LYH) |
Alabama |
|
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13 Danville (DAN) | 25 Anniston (ATN) |
Pennsylvania |
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26 Birmingham (BHM) |
| 4 Philadelphia (PHL) |
North Carolina |
27 Tuscaloosa (TCL) |
| 14 Greensboro (GRO) | ||
| 5 Wilmington (WIL) | 16 Salisbury (SAL) |
Mississippi |
| 17 Charlotte (CLT) | 28 Meridian (MEI) | |
Maryland |
18 Gastonia (GAS) | 29 Laurel (LAU) |
| 6 Baltimore (BAL) |
|
30 Hattiesburg (HBG) |
South Carolina |
31 Picayune (PIC) | |
District of Columbia |
19 Spartanburg (SPB) | |
| 7 Washington (WAS) | 20 Greenville (GRV) |
Louisiana |
| 21 Clemson (CSN) | 33 New Orleans (NOL) |
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Click on 
at any time to go
to the "Route Overview
Page" where you may again jump to any station along the
route.
Each "station stop" includes a photo of the station, a station area street map, local transportation options, and links to other items of area interest. Between the station pages there are detailed station to station maps and links to all of the counties that you pass through along the way.
Enjoy the Ride!
Amtrak Route Description
The following has been extracted from Amtrak's "Crescent" Route Guide.
"The Crescent takes its name from the nickname of its endpoint city, New Orleans. The Crescent is a successor to the famous earlier trains - the Washington and Southwestern Vestibule Limited in 1891 and Southern Railway's Crescent Limited and Southern Crescent in 1925 and 1970, respectively. The Crescent follows Amtrak's Northeast Corridor as far south as Washington, then heads southwest into Virginia, paralleling the Blue Ridge Mountains, continuing south through the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama to New Orleans..."
The rail travel distance between New York and New Orleans via the Crescent is 1,377 miles. The rail travel time is about 30 1/2 hours.
