Floridian or Silver Meteor
The two routes share 20 stations, Miami, Hollywood, Fort Lauderdale among them. The table lists what each shows and how long each takes; the route pages carry the full stretch tables.
Side by side
| Floridian | Silver Meteor | |
|---|---|---|
| Endpoints | Miami to Chicago Union Station | New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station to Miami |
| Duration, end to end | 46 h 40 m | 28 h 29 m |
| Frequency | Daily | Daily |
| Trains | 40 northbound, 41 southbound | 97 southbound, 98 northbound |
| Named stretches with a cited source | 3 | 5 |
| Shows | Mountains, Big rivers | Big rivers, Big cities |
| Headline stretch | Potomac Valley on the B&O line | Susquehanna River |
| Headline stretch in daylight | northbound: daylight Jan to Oct; dusk Nov to Dec, 4:32 p.m.; southbound: daylight, 12:23 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.