Empire Service and Maple Leaf Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
About Empire Service and Maple Leaf
The fullEmpire Servicebetween NYC and Niagara Falls takes nine and a half hours, assuming no delays. A shorter version runs more often between New York City and Albany; this takes about two and a half hours. TheMaple Leaftakes 13 hours to go the full distance between Toronto and New York, including an hour for customs at the US-Canada border. If you're just riding the Canadian portion between Toronto and Niagara Falls, that's only two hours. TheEmpire Serviceand the US portion of theMaple Leafare operated by Amtrak; the Canadian portion of theMaple Leafis operated by Canada's Via Rail. These trains have a cafe car with prepackaged food for sale, but as this is one of Amtrak's shorter routes there's no full-service dining car and no observation car. WiFi is available on board in the US but
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