Silver Meteor or Vermonter
The two routes share 7 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
| Silver Meteor | Vermonter | |
|---|---|---|
| Endpoints | New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station to Miami | St. Albans to Washington Union Station |
| Duration, end to end | 28 h 29 m | 12 h 47 m |
| Frequency | Daily | 5 days a week |
| Trains | 97 southbound, 98 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 Feb to Oct; dusk Nov to Jan, 5:08 p.m.; northbound: daylight, 8:35 a.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.