Empire Service or Palmetto
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 | Palmetto | |
|---|---|---|
| Endpoints | New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station to Albany-Rensselaer | New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station to Savannah |
| Duration, end to end | 2 h 31 m | 18 h 19 m |
| Frequency | Daily | Daily |
| Trains | 233 northbound, 234 southbound | 89 southbound, 90 northbound |
| Named stretches with a cited source | 3 | 5 |
| Shows | Big rivers, Wine country | Big rivers, Big cities |
| Headline stretch | Hudson Highlands | Susquehanna River |
| Headline stretch in daylight | northbound: daylight, 12:24 p.m.; southbound: daylight, 8:11 a.m. | southbound: daylight, 8:17 a.m.; northbound: dark, 9:04 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.