The Crescent connects New York, NY and New Orleans, LA on the route operated by Amtrak, calling at 22 stations.
Quick Facts
- Operator
- Amtrak
- Service type
- Long-Distance
- Endpoints
- New York ↔ New Orleans
- Stations
- 22
- States served
- 12 (NY, NJ, PA, DE, MD, DC, VA, NC, GA, AL, MS, LA)
Route guide
The Crescent is a long-distance service operated by Amtrak, running between Moynihan Train Hall and New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal and calling at 22 stations. Which stations a route calls at, and the agency that operates it, come from the operator's published schedule feed.
What to watch for: Piedmont rolling hills between Charlotte and Atlanta; the long stretch through the Tombigbee and Pearl River basins of central Mississippi.
Stops along the route
Stations are listed in the order the operating agency's schedule feed records them. Stop sequencing depends on the specific train; refer to the operator's timetable for departures.
- Moynihan Train Hall — New York, NY
- Newark Penn Station — Newark, NJ
- William H. Gray III 30th Street Station — Philadelphia, PA
- Joseph R. Biden Jr. Railroad Station — Wilmington, DE
- Baltimore Penn Station — Baltimore, MD
- Washington Union Station — Washington, DC
- Alexandria, VA — Alexandria, VA
- Manassas — Manassas, VA
- Culpeper — Culpeper, VA
- Charlottesville Union Station — Charlottesville, VA
- Lynchburg Kemper Street — Lynchburg, VA
- Greensboro — Greensboro, NC
- High Point — High Point, NC
- Salisbury — Salisbury, NC
- Charlotte — Charlotte, NC
- Atlanta Peachtree — Atlanta, GA
- Anniston — Anniston, AL
- Birmingham — Birmingham, AL
- Tuscaloosa — Tuscaloosa, AL
- Meridian — Meridian, MS
- Hattiesburg — Hattiesburg, MS
- New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal — New Orleans, LA