The Empire Service is an inter-city rail service operated by Amtrak within the state of New York in the United States. The brand name originated with the New York Central Railroad in 1967. Trains on the line provide frequent daily service along the 460-mile (740 km) Empire Corridor between New York City and Niagara Falls via Albany, the state capital.
An Empire Service train passing through Briarcliff Manor, New York in June 2023.
A battered Penn Central EMD E8 leads another E8 and two coaches at Albany-Rensselaer in 1969
Amtrak once operated Turboliners on the Empire Corridor. Here the Mohawk crosses the Seneca River in 1984.
GE Genesis P32AC-DM No. 701 pulls an Empire Service through the Hudson Highlands along the Hudson River.
The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is the national passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates inter-city rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous U.S. states and three Canadian provinces. Amtrak is a portmanteau of the words America and trak, the latter itself a sensational spelling of track.
The Southwest Chief, one of Amtrak's long-distance trains in the Western United States, in Laguna, New Mexico
The Pennsylvania Railroad's Congressional in the 1960s
The North Coast Hiawatha near Yakima, Washington, in July 1971, an example of early Amtrak "rainbow" consists, made up of equipment still painted in the colors of various railroads
Classic Amtrak logo displayed at the Oakland – Jack London Square station, California
