Crescent or Piedmont
The two routes share 4 stations, Greensboro, High Point, Salisbury among them. The table lists what each shows and how long each takes; the route pages carry the full stretch tables.
Side by side
| Crescent | Piedmont | |
|---|---|---|
| Endpoints | New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station to New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal | Raleigh Union Station to Charlotte |
| Duration, end to end | 32 h 12 m | 3 h 10 m |
| Frequency | Daily | Daily |
| Trains | 19 westbound, 20 eastbound | 73 westbound, 78 eastbound |
| Named stretches with a cited source | 8 | 3 |
| Shows | Big rivers, Mountains, Big cities, Gulf coast | Big cities |
| Headline stretch | Chattahoochee River and Cheaha Mountain | Charlotte skyline |
| Headline stretch in daylight | westbound: daylight, 10:18 a.m.; eastbound: dark, 9:29 p.m. | westbound: daylight, 12:47 p.m.; eastbound: daylight Jun to Jul; dusk Aug; dark Sep to Mar; dusk Apr to May, 8:03 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.