Adirondack or Empire Service
The two routes share 8 stations, Schenectady, Albany-Rensselaer, Hudson among them. The table lists what each shows and how long each takes; the route pages carry the full stretch tables.
Side by side
| Adirondack | Empire Service | |
|---|---|---|
| Endpoints | Montreal Central to New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station | New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station to Albany-Rensselaer |
| Duration, end to end | 11 h 5 m | 2 h 31 m |
| Frequency | Daily | Daily |
| Trains | 68 southbound, 69 northbound | 233 northbound, 234 southbound |
| Named stretches with a cited source | 4 | 3 |
| Shows | Big rivers, Wine country | Big rivers, Wine country |
| Headline stretch | Lake Champlain shore | Hudson Highlands |
| Headline stretch in daylight | southbound: daylight Jan to Nov; dusk Dec, 3:55 p.m.; northbound: daylight, 2:39 p.m. | northbound: daylight, 12:24 p.m.; southbound: daylight, 8:11 a.m. |
Duration, frequency, and daylight are computed from the Amtrak GTFS timetable (fetched 2026-10-15) for the representative trip in each direction; daylight is the phrase for the headline stretch, the highlighted row of each route page. Named stretches are counted from the cited route guides. How these are computed.