All Current Amtrak Routes and Stops on Google Maps

I might start doing the discontinued stops too. I have the all routes file too (google earth paths for each route, roughly following the rails), but I don't have access to it right now.

I decided to add the Sunset East stops, as this route is technically "suspended", not discontinued.

I hope this is intriguing somehow!

All Current Amtrak Stops.zip

You should consider uploading these to Google Maps (you can import KML files) and sharing them publicly.

That would be a lot easier for most people to access.

What is a kml file? Wouldn't open for me.

I will try it and tinker around!

.kml files open in Google Earth. You have to have Earth downloaded before opening the file.

I have uploaded it to Google Maps on My Maps.

Routes only: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1AuNpVuYr3OyuxnPfG9AAHd6SloU

Stops only: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1ASCYp2ox9G54dhSMVc7_flQjoVI

Both: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1E3LTDgN8UOB_MAtFn3KSUP2Pl_A

I created a reasonably accurate version using some MSrailroad maps of historical lines which are very accurate. Feel free to play around with and share! Let me know if the link breaks.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=11kolhZNYEgK09fPe-v0qEcyleeBbkF7E&ll=36.7050910737826%2C-96.58311049999998&z=5

While I admire your efforts, my preference is actually for the FRA Safety Map https://fragis.fra.dot.gov/GISFRASafety/ because the highlighted route more closely follows the tracks on the underlying map or satellite image. F'rinstance, it shows the proper routes leading to and from CUS and shows them being on the correct (West) side of the Chicago River South Branch.

Me too, and I like openrailwaymap.org because it shows subdivision names.

That FRA map is pretty neat, thanks! Yeah there was no way I was going to drill down to the exact track on some of those approaches and yards.

Openrailway map is neat too, I like the speed limits, for the US, those must be relatively new because I extended someone else's Acela speed limit map down to Washington a few years ago.

I wanted something I could play around with and edit. Those two maps were not easily downloadable.

I've imported the FRA layer into an Arc_Map file and it's cool. But what I've always really loved was the software mapping programs that didn't depend on an online connection to access; I don't always have access to the internet. Especially on a train. With GPS and a smartphone or tablet it's a little better. But it's not like being able to see the big picture, to zoom in or out without distortion. I don't know of any of those programs that are still updated but the rail network hasn't changed that much - so the GPX files I record when I'm riding the rails are still pretty accurate when I import them into MapPoint or Street Atlas.