Empire Service or Ethan Allen Express
The two routes share 7 stations, New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station, Yonkers, Croton-Harmon among them. The table lists what each shows and how long each takes; the route pages carry the full stretch tables.
Side by side
| Empire Service | Ethan Allen Express | |
|---|---|---|
| Endpoints | New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station to Albany-Rensselaer | Burlington to New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station |
| Duration, end to end | 2 h 31 m | 7 h 2 m |
| Frequency | Daily | Daily |
| Trains | 233 northbound, 234 southbound | 290 southbound, 291 northbound |
| Named stretches with a cited source | 3 | 4 |
| Shows | Big rivers, Wine country | Big rivers, Mountains, Wine country |
| Headline stretch | Hudson Highlands | Green Mountains and Vermont farms |
| Headline stretch in daylight | northbound: daylight, 12:24 p.m.; southbound: daylight, 8:11 a.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.