Keystone Service or Palmetto
The two routes share 4 stations, Philadelphia, Trenton, Newark among them. The table lists what each shows and how long each takes; the route pages carry the full stretch tables.
Side by side
| Keystone Service | Palmetto | |
|---|---|---|
| Endpoints | Harrisburg to New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station | New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station to Savannah |
| Duration, end to end | 3 h 33 m | 18 h 19 m |
| Frequency | 5 days a week | Daily |
| Trains | 640 eastbound, 649 westbound | 89 southbound, 90 northbound |
| Named stretches with a cited source | 4 | 5 |
| Shows | Big cities, Big rivers | Big rivers, Big cities |
| Headline stretch | Pennsylvania Dutch Country | Susquehanna 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. | 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.