Lake Shore Limited or Maple Leaf
The two routes share 6 stations, Buffalo Depew, Rochester, Syracuse Regional Transportation Center among them. The table lists what each shows and how long each takes; the route pages carry the full stretch tables.
Side by side
| Lake Shore Limited | Maple Leaf | |
|---|---|---|
| Endpoints | Chicago Union Station to Boston | New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station to Toronto |
| Duration, end to end | 22 h 2 m | 12 h 28 m |
| Frequency | Daily | Daily |
| Trains | 448 eastbound, 449 westbound | 63 westbound, 64 eastbound |
| Named stretches with a cited source | 5 | 6 |
| Shows | Mountains, Big rivers, Big cities, Wildlife | Big rivers, Wine country |
| Headline stretch | The Berkshires and the Westfield River | Hudson Highlands |
| Headline stretch in daylight | 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. | westbound: daylight, 8:23 a.m.; eastbound: daylight Jun to Jul; dusk Aug; dark Sep to Mar; dusk Apr to May, 7:56 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.