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== Route overview == Amtrak bills the ''Cardinal''{{'}}s route as one of the most scenic in its system. After an early morning departure from New York and traveling south down the Northeast Corridor, the train passes through Virginia's rolling horse country, across the [[Blue Ridge Mountains|Blue Ridge]] and the [[Shenandoah Valley]]. It then climbs the [[Allegheny Mountains]] and stops at the resort town of White Sulphur Springs, home to [[The Greenbrier]], a famous luxury resort. The ''Cardinal'' descends on tracks through [[New River Gorge National Park and Preserve]], a unit of the National Park Service protecting the longest deepest river gorge in the Eastern U.S. The river is popular for white water rafting, and the cliffs attract rock climbers. The forests blaze with autumn foliage and the train usually sells out during the peak season. [[File:Amtrak train 51 arriving at Thurmond.webm|thumb|Amtrak train 51 arriving at Thurmond]] The schedules are timed to allow trains to travel through the New River Gorge in daylight nearly all year. Westbound, the train travels at night from Charleston, West Virginia, on to Indianapolis, where it arrives at about dawn, reaching Chicago mid-morning. Eastbound, the ''Cardinal'' departs late afternoon, reaching Indianapolis before midnight, Charleston mid-morning, and New York City in the late evening. While Cincinnati is served both directions with stops after midnight, about 15,000 passengers a year arrive or depart from this station. The ''Cardinal'' is one of only two of Amtrak's 15 long-distance trains to operate only three days a week, the other being the ''[[Sunset Limited]]''. Like other long-distance trains, passengers are not allowed to travel only between stations on the Northeast Corridor on the ''Cardinal''. Eastbound trains only stop to discharge passengers from Alexandria northward, and westbound trains only stop to receive passengers from Newark to Washington. This policy aims to keep seats available for passengers making longer trips; passengers traveling between Northeast Corridor stations can use the more frequent ''[[Acela Express]]'' or ''[[Northeast Regional]]'' services.
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