Palmetto or Silver Meteor
The two routes share 17 stations, New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station, Newark, Trenton among them. The table lists what each shows and how long each takes; the route pages carry the full stretch tables.
Side by side
| Palmetto | Silver Meteor | |
|---|---|---|
| Endpoints | New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station to Savannah | New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station to Miami |
| Duration, end to end | 18 h 19 m | 28 h 29 m |
| Frequency | Daily | Daily |
| Trains | 89 southbound, 90 northbound | 97 southbound, 98 northbound |
| Named stretches with a cited source | 5 | 5 |
| Shows | Big rivers, Big cities | Big rivers, Big cities |
| Headline stretch | Susquehanna River | Susquehanna River |
| Headline stretch in daylight | southbound: daylight, 8:17 a.m.; northbound: dark, 9:04 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.