Empire Service or Silver Meteor
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 | Silver Meteor | |
|---|---|---|
| Endpoints | New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station to Albany-Rensselaer | New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station to Miami |
| Duration, end to end | 2 h 31 m | 28 h 29 m |
| Frequency | Daily | Daily |
| Trains | 233 northbound, 234 southbound | 97 southbound, 98 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 Feb to Oct; dusk Nov to Jan, 5:08 p.m.; northbound: daylight, 8:35 a.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.