Adirondack: Information from Answers.com
| Adirondack (Amtrak) | |
 Adirondack train #69 at Saratoga Springs station. |
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| Info | |
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| Type | Inter-city rail |
| System | Amtrak |
| Termini | New York, NY Albany, NY Montreal, QC |
| Operation | |
| Opened | August 6, 1974 |
| Owner | MNCR; CSXT; D&H; CN (track) |
| Operator(s) | Amtrak |
| Technical | |
| Line length | 381 miles (613 km) |
| Gauge | 4 ft 8½ in (1,435 mm) |
The Adirondack is a passenger train operated daily by Amtrak between New York City and Montreal. The trip takes approximately 10 hours to cover a published distance of 381 miles (613 km), traveling through the scenic Hudson Valley and the Adirondack Mountains.[1]
The Adirondack service is financed by the New York State Department of Transportation. The Adirondack service suffers from numerous delays along the route because most of the tracks are not owned by Amtrak. Currently the on-time performance of the route averages at 54.9% for the past year as of August 2008. 47.5% of the train delay is due to track and signal related problems, especially along the Canadian Pacific Railway segment.[2]
Route details
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The Adirondack operates over Canadian National Railway, Canadian Pacific Railway, CSX Transportation, Metro-North Railroad, and Amtrak tracks:
- CN Saint-Hyacinthe Subdivision, Montreal to Saint-Lambert
- CN Rouses Point Subdivision, Saint-Lambert to Rouses Point
- CP, Rouses Point to Schenectady
- CSX Hudson Subdivision, Schenectady to Poughkeepsie
- MNRR Hudson Line, Poughkeepsie to Spuyten Duyvil
- Amtrak Empire Connection, Spuyten Duyvil to Penn Station
Note: From 1974 to 1986, the Adirondack used CP Rail's Windsor Station.
Station stops
Proposed high-speed line
There is a proposal for a Montreal—New York City high-speed train. On October 6, 2005, the Albany Times-Union reported that New York Governor George Pataki and Quebec Premier Jean Charest "called for the creation of high-speed rail service between Montreal and New York City as a way to boost the regional economy during the third Quebec-New York Economic Summit [on October 4]". The article claimed that New York was Quebec's main trading partner, which perhaps explains some of the interest in linking the two major cities.
References
- ^ "Official rail service page".
- ^ Amtrak Route on-time performance for Adirondack service [1]
External links
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