Palmetto or Vermonter
The two routes share 10 stations, New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station, Newark, Metropark 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 | Vermonter | |
|---|---|---|
| Endpoints | New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station to Savannah | St. Albans to Washington Union Station |
| Duration, end to end | 18 h 19 m | 12 h 47 m |
| Frequency | Daily | 5 days a week |
| Trains | 89 southbound, 90 northbound | 55 southbound, 56 northbound |
| Named stretches with a cited source | 5 | 10 |
| Shows | Big rivers, Big cities | Big rivers, Mountains, Big cities |
| Headline stretch | Susquehanna River | Waterbury and the Green Mountains |
| Headline stretch in daylight | southbound: daylight, 8:17 a.m.; northbound: dark, 9:04 p.m. | southbound: daylight, 10:04 a.m.; northbound: 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.