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Trains

Intercity train service from and to New York City is provided by Amtrak. 54 trains run each day on the busiest route, New York to Philadelphia. For trips of less than 500 miles to other Northeastern cities Amtrak is often cheaper and faster than air travel. Amtrak accounts for 47% of all non-automobile intercity trips between New York and Washington, D.C. and about 14% of all intercity trips (including those by automobile) between those cities. Amtrak's high-speed Acela trains run from New York to Boston and Washington, D.C. using tilting technology and fast electric locomotives. New York City's Penn Station is the busiest Amtrak station in the United States by annual boardings. In 2004 it saw 4.4 million passenger boardings, more than double the next busiest station, Union Station in Washington, D.C.
Major destinations with frequent service include Albany, Baltimore, Boston, New haven, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., as well as the Canadian cities Toronto and montreal. There are also trains to Upstate New York, New England and destinations in the South and Midwest.

If you are arriving in New York by train, you will arrive in either Penn Station or Grand Central Terminal.

Amtrak
(800) 872-7245
http://www.northeast.amtrak.com/
Travel information and reservations across the US and Canada. If you're traveling to New York from a city along Amtrak's Northeast Corridor (e.g., Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C.) Amtrak may be your best travel bet now that they've rolled out their new high-speed Acela trains. The Acela Express trains cut travel time from D.C. down to 2 1/2 hours, and travel time from Boston to 3 hours.

Metro-North Railroad
From New York City (212) 532-4900
From Other Areas (800) METRO-INFO
For Hearing Impaired (800) 724-3322
Lost and Found (212) 340-2555
http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/mnr/index.html
Metro-North goes to 119 stations distributed in seven counties in New York (Dutchess, Putnam, Westchester, Bronx, Manhattan, Rockland, and Orange) and two counties in Connecticut (New Haven and Fairfield).  Three main lines, the Hudson, the Harlem, and the New Haven, operate out of Grand Central Terminal in New York City and two lines west of the Hudson River, the Port Jervis and the Pascack Valley lines, operate out of New Jersey Transit's terminal in Hoboken, N.J.
The railroad's hours of operation are approximately 4 AM to 3:40 AM. Service intervals vary according to destination and time of day. First trains arrive in Grand Central at 5:30 AM and the last trains leave the terminal at 2 AM. Weekdays, peak-period trains east of the Hudson River run every 20-30 minutes; off-peak trains run every 30-60 minutes; and weekend trains run hourly.

Long Island Rail Road (LIRR)
http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/lirr/index.html
Long Island commuter train. Provides schedules and other information.

New Jersey Transit
(800) 772-2222 from within N.J.
(973) 762-5100 from out of state
http://www.njtransit.state.nj.us/
Covering a service area of 5,325 square miles, NJ TRANSIT is the nation's third largest provider of bus, rail and light rail transit, linking major points in New Jersey, New York and Philadelphia.

PATH Train (Port Authority Trans-Hudson)

(800) 234-7284
http://www.panynj.gov/path/index.html
New Jersey-Manhattan commuter train. Timetables and service updates.

Shoreline East
(800) ALL-RIDE from Connecticut
(203) 777-RIDE from outside Connecticut
http://www.rideworks.com/sle/
The Connecticut Department of Transportation's Shore Line East commuter rail service provides fast and easy commuter transportation between New London and New Haven and beyond Monday through Friday.

Staten Island Railway
(718) 966-SIRT
http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/nyct/sir/index.html
Staten Island commuter train.

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