@railroute-ts/north-america

North America rail network data for railroute-ts. US, Canada and Mexico mainline from the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (main sub-network + rail ferries). Public domain. Amtrak/VIA stations by name; freight yards and Mexican stations by coordinates.

npm install railroute-ts @railroute-ts/north-america

import { railRoute } from 'railroute-ts';
import { NORTH_AMERICA_NETWORK } from '@railroute-ts/north-america';

const route = railRoute([lon1, lat1], [lon2, lat2], { network: NORTH_AMERICA_NETWORK });
route.properties.length;   // km

Stations

Amtrak and VIA Rail stations from OSM (network=Amtrak|VIA), keyed by name:

import { railRoute, registerStations } from 'railroute-ts';
import { NORTH_AMERICA_NETWORK, NORTH_AMERICA_STATIONS } from '@railroute-ts/north-america';

registerStations(NORTH_AMERICA_STATIONS);   // once, at startup
railRoute('Los Angeles Union Station', 'Chicago Union Station', { network: NORTH_AMERICA_NETWORK });

Data is a compact edge-level GeoJSON (NORTH_AMERICA_NETWORK.metadata carries source, license, build date, bbox, edge count and km). Versions are calendar-based (2026.9.x): a bump means a data refresh, not an API change. Rebuild from source with network/fetch-region.py regions/north-america.json in the repo.

License: code MIT; data Public domain (US Government work) — FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (NTAD).