you know as much as i love amtrak they really just failed on the naming scheme. the crown jewel of the amtrak empire the electrified line running from dc to boston with over 9 million people per year giving them a QUARTER of amtraks total revenue is called... drumroll please...
the Northeast Regional
like i hate it so much. There are such cool train names. The City of [insert city name]. The 20th Century Limited. The CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR I LOVE THE WORD ZEPHYR DID YOU KNOW ITS DERIVED FROM A GREEK GOD?? but noooo they took their goddamn crown jewel and sat down in a conference room and brainstormed the most boring name they could think of
What makes it worse is the Northeast Regional replaced a ton of older train lines such as:
- The Afternoon Congressional - DC-NYC
- Beacon Hill - Boston-New Haven
- Benjamin Franklin - Philly-Boston
- Betsy Ross - DC-NYC
- Big Apple - Philly-NYC
- Chesapeake- DC - NYC
- Clamdigger - New Haven-Providence
- Connecticut Yankee - DC-Springfield
- East Wind - NYC-Bostin
All of the routes replaced by the Northeast Regional can be found in the Northeast Corridor section of this Wikipedia article
List of Amtrak routes - Wikipedia en.m.wikipedia.org