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The Empire Corridor is a term used to refer to the approximately railroad corridor between Niagara Falls and New York City, including the cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Schenectady and Albany. The Empire Service and Maple Leaf serve the entire length of this corridor, and the Maple Leaf continues to Toronto. The Metro-North Railroad Hudson Line provides commuter rail service from Poughkeepsie, New York to Grand Central Terminal. The corridor is also one of ten federally designated high-speed rail corridors in the United States. If the proposed high-speed service were built on the corridor, trains traveling between Buffalo and New York City would travel at speeds of up to . In the 1890s service on the Empire State Express service between New York City and Buffalo was about 1 hour faster than Amtrak's service in 2013. On September 14, 1891 the Empire State Express covered the 436 miles (702 kilometers) between New York City and Buffalo in 7 hours and 6 minutes (including stops), averaging 61.4 miles-per-hour (98.8 km/h), with a top speed of 82 mph (132 km/h).〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Rain, Steam & Speed: Inventing Powered Motion )〕 ==Current passenger services== The busiest segment of the Empire Corridor is between New York City and Albany with multiple trains per day. Amtrak long-distance trains serving Empire Corridor stations: *''Adirondack''- to/from Montreal. *''Empire Service''- local service to/from Niagara Falls. Most trains terminate at and start from Albany, with two trains continuing to/from Niagara Falls. On the westbound journey to Niagara Falls, there are two trains daily. On the eastbound journey, there is one daily train, and the timing of the second train varies by day of the week. *''Ethan Allen Express''- to/from Rutland, Vermont. *''Lake Shore Limited''- to/from Chicago, using the Empire Corridor between Depew, New York (near Buffalo), and New York City (though half of the train splits off at Albany to continue to Boston). *''Maple Leaf''- daily to/from Toronto. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Empire Corridor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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