Empire Service or Keystone Service
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
| Empire Service | Keystone Service | |
|---|---|---|
| Endpoints | New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station to Albany-Rensselaer | Harrisburg to New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station |
| Duration, end to end | 2 h 31 m | 3 h 33 m |
| Frequency | Daily | 5 days a week |
| Trains | 233 northbound, 234 southbound | 640 eastbound, 649 westbound |
| Named stretches with a cited source | 3 | 4 |
| Shows | Big rivers, Wine country | Big cities, Big rivers |
| Headline stretch | Hudson Highlands | Pennsylvania Dutch Country |
| Headline stretch in daylight | northbound: daylight, 12:24 p.m.; southbound: daylight, 8:11 a.m. | eastbound: dawn May to Aug; dark Sep to Apr, 5:48 a.m.; westbound: daylight Mar to Oct; dark Nov to Jan; dusk Feb, 5:42 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.