Albany-Rensselaer (Amtrak station)

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Albany-Rensselaer
Station statistics
Address	525 East St. Rensselaer, NY 12144
Lines	Amtrak: Maple Leaf Adirondack Empire Service Ethan Allen Express Lake Shore Limited
Other service	CDTA buses
Other information
Code	ALB
Owned by	CDTA
Traffic
Passengers (2006)	761,434 4%

The Albany-Rensselaer Rail Station is a long-distance rail terminal in Rensselaer, New York, located 1.5 miles across the Hudson River from downtown Albany. As of 2006, the station was Amtrak's tenth busiest station^[1] and is served by many of Amtrak's northeastern routes outside of the Northeast Corridor. These include the Lake Shore Limited, whose Boston and New York branches meet at the station.

The current structure dates to September 2002 and features a Coffee Beanery coffeeshop, a newsstand, and a post office. This structure replaced the adjacent 1968 terminal, which is now used as office space by Amtrak. Prior to 1968, trains stopped at Albany's Union Station, a building located on Broadway that now houses the northeast headquarters of Bank of America (via predecessors Fleet Bank and Norstar Bank). The New York Central Railroad had plans to leave Albany beforehand in part due to the construction of Interstate 787 needing the space where an adjacent rail yard lay, but it was under Penn Central's watch that the move took place.

The Albany-Rensselaer Rail Station is operated by the Capital District Transportation Authority (CDTA), which has three bus routes serving the station. These routes and range of service are as follows:

• 14-Rensselaer/Third Street-Amtrak (every 30 minutes weekdays/rush hours, every 60 minutes nights/weekends)
• 15-Rensselaer/East Street (8 runs weekdays on 1-2 hour headways)
• 24-Albany/Troy via Rensselaer (every 25 minutes rush hours, 50 minutes weekday middays)

Car rental and taxi services are also available at the station with the average taxi ride into downtown Albany averaging about $7.

[edit] Amtrak Service

With the exception of the Boston branch of the Lake Shore Limited, all trains have southbound service to Penn Station in New York City.

• Adirondack to Montreal
• Empire Service: all trains to New York (via Hudson, Rhinecliff, Poughkeepsie, Croton-on-Hudson, Yonkers); some westbound to Buffalo and Niagara Falls.
• Ethan Allen Express to Rutland, Vermont
• Lake Shore Limited to Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Cleveland, Toledo, and Chicago
  • New York Branch (Train 447/449): Croton-on Hudson, New York (Penn Station)
  • Boston Branch (Train 448): Pittsfield, Springfield, Worcester, Framingham, Boston (Back Bay), Boston (South Station)
• Maple Leaf to Toronto

[edit] References

[edit] External link

• Amtrak - Stations - Albany-Rensselaer Station

• Ridership figures, FY 2004
• Ridership figures, FY 2005
• Ridership figures, FY 2006

Previous station		Amtrak		Next station
Schenectady toward Montreal		Adirondack		Hudson toward New York
Schenectady toward Niagara Falls		Empire Service
Schenectady toward Rutland		Ethan Allen Express
Schenectady toward Toronto		Maple Leaf
Schenectady toward Chicago		Lake Shore Limited		Croton-Harmon toward New York
				Pittsfield toward Boston South