Intermodal Fastest Cheapest
The eastern trunk between the Chicago gateway and the New York/New Jersey port complex.
Crosses: US
- Transit
- 2 d
- Departures
- 35/wk
- Indicative
- $1,100–$1,900
- CO₂ vs road
- −65%
Chicago → Elizabeth
1 rail service between Chicago Corwith in United States and New York Expressrail in United States. Fastest is 2 days; cheapest starts around $1,100.
Through running — no gauge break
Both facilities serve Standard (1435 mm), so a wagon can run through without transshipment or a bogie change. This is the cheap case: no gauge break means no mandatory stop and no handling cost between the two ends.
Services on this corridor
Corridor facts
- Distance
- 1,300 km
- Fastest transit
- 2 days
- Services
- 1
- Origin gauge
- Standard (1435 mm)
- Destination gauge
- Standard (1435 mm)
- Countries crossed
- 1
- Best emissions
- 22 gCO₂/tonne-km
- Road benchmark
- 62 gCO₂/tonne-km