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The Piedmont: Amtrak’s North Carolina-Only Line

The Piedmont #76, Charlotte to Raleigh route, is the Amtrak line that serves only North Carolina. From Charlotte it makes stops in Kannapolis, Salisbury, High Point, Greensboro, Burlington and Durham. It ends is Raleigh. The reverse route is a part of the Carolinian line, train #79.


If you make it down to the station around 8:45PM or so, you can see it arriving. The cars are empty of passengers in the video above because Raleigh is the last stop on the daily line.

I’ve been planning on taking a day trip to Charlotte by train for some time now. Has anyone reading ever done this? Looks like it would be a very early arrival time and a 9PM re-arrival time.