Northeast Regional or Palmetto
The two routes share 8 stations, Alexandria, Washington Union Station, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport among them. The table lists what each shows and how long each takes; the route pages carry the full stretch tables.
Side by side
| Northeast Regional | Palmetto | |
|---|---|---|
| Endpoints | Roanoke to Boston | New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station to Savannah |
| Duration, end to end | 17 h 42 m | 18 h 19 m |
| Frequency | Daily | Daily |
| Trains | 66 eastbound, 151 westbound | 89 southbound, 90 northbound |
| Named stretches with a cited source | 7 | 5 |
| Shows | Big rivers, Big cities, Mountains | Big rivers, Big cities |
| Headline stretch | Potomac River and the monuments | Susquehanna River |
| Headline stretch in daylight | eastbound: dark, 9:20 p.m.; westbound: daylight Feb; dawn Mar; daylight Apr to Sep; dawn Oct; daylight Nov; dawn Dec to Jan, 7:39 a.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.