Get an Amtrak Cardinal Schedule. If you are looking for a printable timetable, there is one at the bottom. You can click on each station to see what amenities they offer.
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Accommodations Offerings for the Cardinal
Coach Seating
Coach seating – features comfortable reclining seats with ample legroom and a fold-down tray, individual reading lights, and 120v electric outlets.
Sleeper Car (Rooms)
All rooms include:
- Fresh linens and towels
- Complimentary meals
- Lounge access in Chicago, New York, Philidelphia. and Washington DC
- dedicated car attendant
Bedroom – these rooms give you twice the space of a Roomette with seating by day, upper and lower berths by night, and an in-room restroom and shower.
Roomette – these accommodations offer passengers seating by day that turns into upper and lower berths at night. Additionally, you have access to a shower in your car.
Accessible Room – these rooms offer accommodations for passengers with a disability; accessible Bedrooms are located on the lower level of the train and provide ample space for a wheelchair, with a sofa for two by day and upper and lower berth for the night.
Bikes, Pets, Wi-Fi, and Luggage
Bicycle – Space is available for standard, full-size bicycles (up to 50 lbs, 70 inches x 41 inches x 8.5 inches). Amtrak stores bikes in designated bike racks/areas inside Coach passenger cars or the baggage car (if available).
Pet – Amtrak allows dogs and cats up to 20 pounds (combined weight of pet and carrier) for trips up to seven hours.
Checked Baggage – Two bags up to 50 lbs. and 75 linear inches are allowed per person for free. Charges
apply for additional and oversized luggage. Not all locations can handle checked baggage. Click the station links below to see if they offer checked baggage service.
Wi-Fi -Amtrak offers Wi-Fi free of charge that supports general web browsing activities. Due to limited
bandwidth onboard the trains, our Wi-Fi does not support high-bandwidth actions such as streaming music,
streaming videos or downloading large files.
Food offerings on the Cardinal
Cafe – offers a variety of meals, snacks, and beverages for sale, and it is available for all passengers from early morning until late at night. You can find the cafe between the coach cars and the sleeper lounge.
Flex Dining – is complimentary dining for sleeping passengers to enjoy in private rooms or the Sleeper Lounge. Flex dining meals are prepared ahead of time and warmed on the train. Meals include breakfast selections, and lunch and dinner share the same menu, plus complimentary beverages.
2023 Amtrak Cardinal Schedule
| Train 51 Westbound Read Down | Communities Served | Miles | Train 50 Eastbound Read up |
|---|---|---|---|
| We-Fr-Su | This train runs three days a week. | – | We-Fr-Su |
| 6:45a | New York, NY Moynihan Train Hall (NYP) | 0 | 10:23p |
| R 7:00a | 7:05a | Newark, NJ – Penn Station (NWK) | 10 | D 10:03p |
| 7:37a | 7:42a | Trenton, NJ (TRE) | 58 | D 9:27p |
| 8:07a | 8:15a | Philadelphia, PA William H. Gray III 30th St. Station (PHL) | 91 | D 8:51p |
| 8:44a. | Wilmington, DE (WIL) | 116 | D 8:30p |
| 9:30a | Baltimore, MD – Penn Station (BAL) | 185 | D 7:41p |
| 10:18a | 10:59a | Washington, DC – Union Station (WAS) | 225 | D 6:44p |
| 11:19a | Alexandria, VA (ALX) | 233 | D 6:27p |
| 11:52p | Manassas, VA (MSS) | 258 | 5:35p |
| 12:25p | Culpeper, VA (CLP) | 293 | 5:00p |
| 1:43p | 1:52p | Charlottesville, VA (CVS) | 340 | 3:35p | 3:44p |
| 2:54p | Staunton, VA (STA) | 379 | 2:38a |
| 4:13p | Clifton Forge, VA (CLF) | 437 | 1:09a |
| 5:05p | White Sulphur Springs, WV (WSS) | 472 | 12:01a |
| 5:36p | Alderson, WV (ALD) | 496 | 11:18a |
| 6:06p | Hinton, WV (HIN) | 517 | 10:50a |
| 6:43p | Prince, WV (PRC) | 540 | 10:18a |
| 6:59p | Thurmond, WV (THN) | 551 | 9:56a |
| 7:50p | Montgomery, WV (MNG) | 592 | 9:02a |
| 8:23p | 8:29p | Charleston, WV (CHW) | 619 | 8:31a |
| 9:44p | 9:51p | Huntington, WV (HUN) | 668 | 7:19a | 7:26a |
| 10:14p | Ashland, KY (AKY) | 683 | 6:45a |
| 10:57p | South Shore, KY Portsmouth, OH (SPM) | 712 | 5:55a |
| 11:52p | Maysville, KY (MAY) | 766 | 5:02a |
| 1:31a | 1:41a Th-Sa-Mo | Cincinnati, OH Union Terminal (CIN) | 828 | 3:27a | 3:37a |
| 3:36a | Connersville, IN (COI) | 893 | Tu, Th FR 1:31a |
| 5:15a | 6:00a | Indianapolis, IN (IND) | 951 | We-Fr-Su 11:49p | 12:15a Tu-Th-Sa |
| 3:36a | Crawfordsville, IN (CRF) | 998 | 10:30p |
| 7:36a | Lafayette, IN – Amtrak Station (LAF) | 1025 | 9:56p |
| 7:40a | Rensselaer, IN (REN) | 1072 | 7:45p |
| 8:29a | Dyer, IN (DYE) | 1118 | 6:45p |
| 10:00a | Chicago, IL – Union Station (CHI) | 1147 | 5:55p |
| Th-Sa-Mo | – | – | Tu-Th-Sa |
| End | Stations | Miles | Read Up |
Printable Amtrak Cardinal Schedule
Abbreviations
Su- Sunday; Mo-Monday; Tu-Tuesday; We-Wednesday; Th-Thursday; Fr-Friday; Sa-Saturday
R = Receive passengers only; this means you can board the train, but you cannot buy a ticket on this train to this station.
D = Depart only; you can buy a ticket to this station but not from this station. The train may leave early from this stop.
* = Stations with Amtrak Connecting Services.
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Thanks for this.
You are welcome!
Safe Travels,
Kev
Kev looking for a non working model train for grandson present as we went on sunset Houston to LA last week but dont know livery or train type to buy as a souvenier
Hi Laura,
So you would want to look for Phase IV Superliner cars, which could include coaches (three of them, one a baggage coach), sleepers two regular and a transform sleeper if you want to be authentic, and then a Sightseer Lounge and a dining car. To finish things up, a Viewliner Phase 3 baggage car and 2 Phase V locomotive or one of the heritage units. I hope that helps! eBay could be an excellent place to find them!
Kev
Thanks especially for this timetable, Kev. Last spring, I mentioned to my wife that an Amtrak Cardinal T-shirt would be a nice Father’s Day gift. When my wife saw a picture of it, she wanted one too, so we bought two. Living in Alexandria, Virginia, at the time, I thought that a day trip on the Cardinal would be fun. I had done it some years before with a friend. I tried searching the booking thingy on the Amtrak website by train numbers, stations, range of dates, and found nothing. I couldn’t tell whether the train was even running. Since then we have moved to Pennsylvania, but maybe we will take a long ride later this year.
You are welcome, Steve! The Cardinal is still going, but three times a week. I hope you ride it again; it is one of my favorite trains.