If you're in New York City headed to Albany today, now is a great time to check your Amtrak alerts. The Daily News is reporting structural damage at a parking garage in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen-- which is causing Amtrak to suspend service to Albany.
One of the best ways to travel across New York state or into New York City is by train on Amtrak. I have always found it so relaxing and efficient to travel to Buffalo by train and since there are so many renovations being done to the New York State Thruway rest areas, it's the best way to travel
Utica's Union Station is rightly celebrated as one of America's great train stations. The same would never be said about Buffalo's Exchange Street station.
Surprising but true, in an era when boats plying the Erie Canal was still an efficient way to move cargo, taking a train trip across New York, say from Buffalo to New York City, was quicker at the end of the 1800s than today.
Fans of leaf-peeping in upstate New York will have a special opportunity to experience the splendor of fall from a new perspective this year.
Amtrak will bring its only “dome” car to the Adirondack Route between Albany and Montreal for a few weeks.