The Carolinian is a train running daily between Charlotte, North Carolina and New York, New York. The train does not have a sleeping car. There are two trains a day, one in each direction. Each train leaves its origin station (Charlotte or New York) in the morning and arrives at its final destination in the evening. On-Board services include Coach, Business Class and Dinette Car.
The Piedmont is a train running daily between Raleigh, North Carolina and Charlotte, North Carolina. There is one train a day leaving Raleigh at 7:15am, arriving in Charlotte by 10:40am. It begins the return journey from Charlotte at 5:30pm and returns to Raleigh at 8:55pm. On_Board services comprise Coach only.
The Carolinian and Piedmont are financed and operated jointly between Amtrak and the North Carolina Department of Transportation.
A narrow band of Carolinian forest extends along the north shores of Lake Erie and western Lake Ontario.
Although this Carolinian zone comprises less than a quarter of one percent of Canada's land area, it is home to more types of flora and fauna than anywhere else in the country.
Carolinian Canada is a cooperative project set up in 1984 by the Province of Ontario and non-profit conservation groups to preserve the ecological diversity of this zone.
Carolinian (No. 1445), a freighter, was built in 1906 by Furness-Withy Co., West Hartlepool, England; known as Harley and Southerner before her acquisition by the Navy 5 October 1918; and commissioned the same day, Lieutenant Commander W. Fralic, USNRF, in command.
Carolinian operated in European waters, based at Cardiff, from her commissioning until 8 February 1919, carrying coal from Cardiff and other English ports to France for use by Army transports coaling at French ports.
She sailed for Newport News with return cargo for the Army, and after stopping in the Azores for voyage repairs, arrived at Baltimore 12 March to discharge her cargo and start inactivation.
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