Long distance trains frequency

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The following 2 Long Distance trains operate only 3 times per week:

• Sunset Limited (New Orleans-Los Angeles)

• Cardinal (New York-Chicago)


All other long distance trains operate every day.

It should also be noted that the Lake Shore Limited provides daily service from New York to Chicago, but on a different route than the Cardinal.
 
anmldr said:
Which long distance route only operates every other day?
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The Cardinal and Sunset Limited are the only two LD routes that operate less than daily. Both of them have three departures per week in each direction, so they are not quite every other day -- i.e., there will be three days between one set of departures each week. The Cardinal, for example, leaves New York westbound on Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays and leaves Chicago eastbound on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
 
Ideally, all LD routes would run twice a day so that every stop on the route could be served at a decent if not quite optimal time of day. I'd love to take the Builder from PDX to Spokane, but it gets there and comes back in the middle of the night, roughly midnight eastbound and 3am westbound IIRC.
 

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