Adirondack or Lake Shore Limited
The two routes share 6 stations, Schenectady, Albany-Rensselaer, Rhinecliff 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 | Lake Shore Limited | |
|---|---|---|
| Endpoints | Montreal Central to New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station | Chicago Union Station to Boston |
| Duration, end to end | 11 h 5 m | 22 h 2 m |
| Frequency | Daily | Daily |
| Trains | 68 southbound, 69 northbound | 448 eastbound, 449 westbound |
| Named stretches with a cited source | 4 | 5 |
| Shows | Big rivers, Wine country | Mountains, Big rivers, Big cities, Wildlife |
| Headline stretch | Lake Champlain shore | The Berkshires and the Westfield River |
| Headline stretch in daylight | southbound: daylight Jan to Nov; dusk Dec, 3:55 p.m.; northbound: daylight, 2:39 p.m. | eastbound: daylight Mar to Oct; dark Nov to Dec; dusk Jan to Feb, 5:09 p.m.; westbound: daylight Jan to Oct; dusk Nov to Dec, 4:04 p.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.