Amtrak Cascades

Amtrak Cascades

A Cascades trainset in Vancouver, Washington, 2021
Overview
Service type	Inter-city rail
Locale	Pacific Northwest
Predecessor	BN/UP/SP corridor trains
First service	May 1, 1971 (1971-05-01)
Current operator(s)	Amtrak, in partnership with Washington and Oregon Departments of Transportation
Annual ridership	669,820 (FY23) 71.6%[a][1]
Website	amtrakcascades.com
Route
Termini	Vancouver, British Columbia Eugene, Oregon
Stops	18
Distance travelled	467 miles (752 km)
Train number(s)	500–519
On-board services
Class(es)	Coach Class Business Class
Disabled access	Fully accessible
Seating arrangements	4 across in coach class 3 across in business class
Catering facilities	Café car, lounge car
Baggage facilities	Overhead racks, checked baggage available at selected stations
Technical
Rolling stock	Siemens Charger Talgo Series 8 Horizon
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Operating speed	79 mph (127 km/h) (top)
Track owner(s)	UP, BNSF, Sound Transit[2]
Route map Legend 0 mi 0 km Vancouver, BC Fraser River Canadian to Toronto BC, Canada WA, United States border 62 mi 100 km Bellingham 88 mi 142 km Mount Vernon 103 mi 166 km Stanwood Empire Builder to Chicago 123 mi 198 km Everett 139 mi 224 km Edmonds 157 mi 253 km Seattle 168 mi 270 km Tukwila Point Defiance Bypass 196 mi 315 km Tacoma Tacoma Dome Pre-2021 route 232 mi 373 km Olympia–Lacey 251 mi 404 km Centralia 294 mi 473 km Kelso–Longview Empire Builder to Chicago 334 mi 538 km Vancouver, Washington WA OR Swing span across Columbia River 344 mi 554 km Portland Pioneer to Chicago (discontinued 1997) 359 mi 578 km Oregon City 396 mi 637 km Salem 424 mi 682 km Albany 467 mi 752 km Eugene Coast Starlight to Los Angeles All stations are accessible This diagram: view talk edit

The Amtrak Cascades is a passenger train route in the Pacific Northwest, operated by Amtrak in partnership with the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon. It is named after the Cascade mountain range that the route parallels. The 467-mile (752 km) corridor runs from Vancouver, British Columbia, through Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, to Eugene, Oregon.

As of December 2023^[update], seven round trips operate along the corridor each day: one Vancouver–Seattle, one Vancouver–Seattle–Portland, three Seattle–Portland, and two Seattle–Portland–Eugene. No train travels the entire length of the corridor. For trains that do not travel directly to Vancouver or Eugene, connections are available on Amtrak Thruway bus services.^[3] Additionally, Amtrak Thruway services offer connections to other destinations in British Columbia, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington not on the rail corridor.

In the fiscal year 2017, Cascades was Amtrak's eighth-busiest route with a total annual ridership of over 810,000.^[4] In fiscal year 2018, farebox recovery ratio for the train was 63%.^[5] On-time performance in FY2021 was 58.7%.^[6]

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