The following Amtrak routes have been either discontinued or renamed. Discontinuance does not necessarily indicate loss of rail service on a particular route. This list does not include the former names of individual trains on the Empire Service, Hiawatha, or Northeast Corridor.

• Acela Regional - Service on the Northeast Corridor (renamed to Regional)
• Abraham Lincoln (discontinued)
• Arrowhead (discontinued)
• Atlantic City Express (discontinued)
• Big Apple (renamed to Keystone Service)
• Black Hawk (discontinued)
• Blue Ridge (discontinued)
• Blue Water Limited (renamed to International)
• Broadway Limited (renamed to Three Rivers)
• Calumet (discontinued)
• Cape Codder (discontinued)
• Carolina Coast (discontinued)
• Cascadia (renamed to Cascades)
• Champion (discontinued)
• Chesapeake (discontinued)
• Chief (discontinued)
• City of Las Vegas (discontinued)
• City of San Francisco (discontinued)
• Clocker (renamed to Regional)
• Coast Daylight (discontinued)
• Daylight (replaced by Coast Starlight)
• Denver Zephyr (discontinued)
• Desert Wind - Train #35 & #36: Chicago,IL to Los Angeles,CA (discontinued 1997)
• Dusquesne (replaced by Three Rivers/Pennsylvanian)
• East Wind (discontinued)
• Eagle (renamed to Texas Eagle)
• El Capitan (discontinued)
• Executive Sleeper (discontinued)
• Floridian (discontinued 1979)
• George Washington (renamed to Cardinal)
• Gulf Breeze (discontinued)
• Gulf Limited (discontinued)
• Gulf Wind (discontinued)
• Hilltopper (replaced by Cardinal)
• Hoosier State (replaced by Kentucky Cardinal)
• Indiana Connection (discontinued)
• Inter American (replaced by Texas Eagle)
• James Whitcomb Riley (renamed to Cardinal)
• Kentucky Cardinal - Train #850-851: Chicago,IL to Louisville,KY (discontinued 2003)
• Keystone Executive (replaced by Keystone Service)
• Lake Country Limited - Train #342-343: Chicago,IL to Janesville,WI (discontinued 2001)
• Lake Shore (discontinued [not Lake Shore Limited])
• Limited (discontinued)
• Lone Star (discontinued)
• Loop (discontinued)
• Manhattan Limited (never implemented)
• Meteor (renamed to Silver Meteor)
• Miamian (discontinued)
• Michigan Executive (discontinued)
• Montrealer (replaced by Vermonter)
• Mt Adams Talgo - Train #752 & #753: Seattle,WA to Portland,OR (renamed to Cascades)
• Mt Baker Intl - Train #760 & #761: Seattle,WA to Vancouver,BC,Canada (renamed to Cascades)
• Mt Ranier (renamed to Cascadia)
• National Chief - Train #15 & #16: Washington,DC to Los Angeles,CA (never implemented)
• National Limited (discontinued)
• National Limited (renamed to Spirit of St Louis)
• New Jerseyan (discontinued)
• New Yorker (discontinued)
• Niagara Rainbow (discontinued)
• Night Owl (replaced by Twilight Shoreliner)
• North Coast Hiawatha (discontinued)
• North Coast Limited (renamed to North Coast Hiawatha)
• North Star (renamed to Arrowhead)
• NortheastDirect - Service on the Northeast Corridor (renamed to Acela Regional)
• Pacific International (renamed to Mt Baker International)
• Panama Limited (renamed to City of New Orleans)
• Pioneer - Train #25 & #26: Chicago,IL to Seattle,WA (discontinued 1997)
• Potomac (discontinued)
• Potomac Special(discontinued)
• Prairie Marksman (discontinued)
• Puget Sound (renamed to Mt Ranier)
• Rio Grande Zephyr (discontinued)
• River Cities (discontinued)
• San Diegans - Trains #500's & #700's: San Diego,CA to San Luis Obispo,CA (renamed to Pacific Surfliner)
• San Francisco Zephyr (renamed to California Zephyr)
• Shawnee (renamed to Illini)
• Shenandoah (discontinued)
• Silver Palm - Train #89 & #90: New York,NY to Miami,FL (replaced by Palmetto)
• Silver Palm (discontinued)
• Silverliner Service (replaced by Keystone Service)
• Skyline Connection (never implemented)
• South Breeze (discontinued)
• South Wind (renamed to Floridian)
• Southwest Limited (renamed to Southwest Chief)
• Spirit of America (discontinued)
• Spirit of California (discontinued)
• Spirit of St Louis (discontinued)
• St Clair (renamed to Twilight Limited)
• Super Chief (renamed to Southwest Limited)
• Susquehanna (renamed to Keystone Service)
• Texan (discontinued)
• Texas Chief (discontinued)
• Texas Limited (replaced by Texas Eagle)
• Tidewater (discontinued)
• Twilight Shoreliner - Trains #66, 67, 76: Boston,MA to Newport News,VA (replaced by Federal)
• Twin Rocket (discontinued)
• Vacationer (discontinued)
• Valley Forge (renamed to Keystone Service)
• Washingtonian (renamed to Montrealer)
• Weekender (discontinued)
• West Coast Metroliner (discontinued)
• Willamette Valley (discontinued)
• Wishbone (discontinued)

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