Ethan Allen Express 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
| Ethan Allen Express | Silver Meteor | |
|---|---|---|
| Endpoints | Burlington to New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station | New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station to Miami |
| Duration, end to end | 7 h 2 m | 28 h 29 m |
| Frequency | Daily | Daily |
| Trains | 290 southbound, 291 northbound | 97 southbound, 98 northbound |
| Named stretches with a cited source | 4 | 5 |
| Shows | Big rivers, Mountains, Wine country | Big rivers, Big cities |
| Headline stretch | Green Mountains and Vermont farms | Susquehanna River |
| Headline stretch in daylight | southbound: daylight, 10:10 a.m.; northbound: dusk May to Jul; dark Aug to Apr, 8:35 p.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.