![]() South of Cold Spring through to New York City the top speed on Metro-North’s Hudson Line is 80 to 70-mph, with 60-mph on Amtrak’s Empire Connection from the Spuyten Duyvil Bridge south along the westside of Manhattan to Penn Station. South of Stuyvesant through Poughkeepsie to Cold Spring the top speed is 90-mph, with a short 8-mile segment of 95-mph between Poughkeepsie and Rhinecliff. ![]() West of Amsterdam the top speed on CSX mainline is 79-mph, but in Buffalo it falls to 60-mph for the 28 miles of the CSX Niagara Branch from the Larkin District just east of Buffalo-Exchange Street to the Niagara Falls Rail Station. Also, just west of Schenectady to Hoffmans, where Amtrak's Hudson Line merges with the former West Shore Line (CSX Selkirk Subdivision) to form the mainline (Mohawk and subdivisions) to Buffalo, there is 9 miles of 100-mph track. There is another 8 miles of 110-mph track between Albany and Schenectady, after the West Albany Hill and CSX Freight Yard. This includes 17 miles of track from the Albany-Rensselaer Rail Station south to MP 124 at Stuyvesant, 10 miles north of Hudson, NY. LONG ANSEWER: The top speed for Amtrak trains along the Empire Corridor is 110-mph on two sections of mainline through the Capital District. ![]() How Fast do the Trains Go? SHORT ANSEWER: 110 MPH on segments of track through the Capital District FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS LISTED IN ORDER How Fast do the Trains Go? Host Railroads: Who owns the Tracks? What Exactly is Amtrak? PRIIA Section 209: Who Pays for the Empire Corridor? What is High Speed Rail? What is Higher Speed / High Performance Rail? What Makes up Railroad Track? How does Signaling and Interlocking Work? What is Postive Train Control? Has There Been Direct Air Service Albany-Buffalo? How is Passenger Rail Organizated and Funded Overseas? Is it Railroad or Railway? ![]()
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