Crescent or Ethan Allen Express
The two routes share one station, New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station. The table lists what each shows and how long each takes; the route pages carry the full stretch tables.
Side by side
| Crescent | Ethan Allen Express | |
|---|---|---|
| Endpoints | New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station to New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal | Burlington to New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station |
| Duration, end to end | 32 h 12 m | 7 h 2 m |
| Frequency | Daily | Daily |
| Trains | 19 westbound, 20 eastbound | 290 southbound, 291 northbound |
| Named stretches with a cited source | 8 | 4 |
| Shows | Big rivers, Mountains, Big cities, Gulf coast | Big rivers, Mountains, Wine country |
| Headline stretch | Chattahoochee River and Cheaha Mountain | Green Mountains and Vermont farms |
| Headline stretch in daylight | westbound: daylight, 10:18 a.m.; eastbound: dark, 9:29 p.m. | southbound: daylight, 10:10 a.m.; northbound: dusk May to Jul; dark Aug to Apr, 8:35 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.