Keystone Service or Lake Shore Limited
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
| Keystone Service | Lake Shore Limited | |
|---|---|---|
| Endpoints | Harrisburg to New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station | Chicago Union Station to Boston |
| Duration, end to end | 3 h 33 m | 22 h 2 m |
| Frequency | 5 days a week | Daily |
| Trains | 640 eastbound, 649 westbound | 448 eastbound, 449 westbound |
| Named stretches with a cited source | 4 | 5 |
| Shows | Big cities, Big rivers | Mountains, Big rivers, Big cities, Wildlife |
| Headline stretch | Pennsylvania Dutch Country | The Berkshires and the Westfield River |
| Headline stretch in daylight | 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. | eastbound: daylight Mar to Oct; dark Nov to Dec; dusk Jan to Feb, 5:09 p.m.; westbound: daylight Jan to Oct; dusk Nov to Dec, 4:04 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.