Silver Service

Silver Service
The Silver Meteor passing Odenton station in 2014
Overview
Locale	United States East Coast
Transit type	Inter-city rail
Number of lines	2
Website	Amtrak Silver Service
Operation
Operator(s)	Amtrak
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
System map Legend Northeast Corridor to Boston New York City Empire Corridor Hudson River NY NJ North River Tunnels Newark Penn Trenton Delaware River NJ PA Keystone Service, Pennsylvanian Philadelphia–30th Street PA DE Wilmington DE MD Baltimore Capitol Limited to Chicago MD DC Washington, D.C. Potomac River DC VA Alexandria Cardinal, Crescent Northeast Regional Fredericksburg Richmond Staples Mill Road Northeast Regional to Newport News Petersburg Northeast Regional to Norfolk Silver Star prior to 1986 VA NC Henderson Rocky Mount Raleigh Cary Carolinian and Piedmont to Charlotte Southern Pines Fayetteville Hamlet NC SC Florence Camden Kingstree Columbia Charleston Denmark Yemassee Savannah River SC GA Savannah Silver Meteor prior to 1979 Jesup Thalmann St. Marys River GA FL Jacksonville Silver Palm (1996–2002) Waldo Palatka Ocala DeLand Wildwood Auto Train to Sanford Winter Park Orlando Dade City Kissimmee Tampa Lakeland Winter Haven Sebring Okeechobee West Palm Beach Delray Beach Deerfield Beach Fort Lauderdale Hollywood Miami Miami (SAL) (until 1978) Miami Intermodal Center Planned All current stations are accessible

Silver Service was a brand applied by Amtrak to its long-distance trains running along the United States East Coast between New York City and Miami, Florida. It comprised two trains – the Silver Meteor and Silver Star.^[1] Since November 2024, the Silver Star has been temporarily combined with the Capitol Limited to form the Floridian, a Chicago–Washington–Miami route. The Silver Service brand was subsequently quietly discontinued for an indefinite period at the same time.

The two services follow the same general route between New York City and Miami, but diverge between Selma, North Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia, as well as at Auburndale, Florida. The Silver Meteor takes a more direct, coastal route on the CSX A-Line between Selma and Savannah via Fayetteville, North Carolina, Florence, South Carolina, and Charleston, South Carolina, while the Silver Star travels inland over the CSX S-Line to serve the Carolinas' two state capitals, Raleigh, North Carolina, and Columbia, South Carolina. At Auburndale, Florida, the Silver Star continues west to service Lakeland and Tampa, while the Silver Meteor turns south to go directly to Miami.

Amtrak's Palmetto operates over the Silver Meteor's route between New York City and Savannah. However, from 1996 to 2002, the train was known as the Silver Palm and ran all the way south to Miami, though over a different routing between Jacksonville and Auburndale. The Palmetto name was reverted in 2002, and service was eventually truncated back to Savannah in 2004.