{"id":301238,"date":"2026-10-07T02:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T02:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/301238\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T02:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T02:02:19","slug":"amtraks-second-pittsburgh-new-york-route-begins-nov-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/301238\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak&#8217;s second Pittsburgh-New York route begins Nov. 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Amtrak\u2019s second daily route connecting Pittsburgh to New York City will begin service on Nov. 18, PennDOT Secretary Mike Carroll announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The new &#8220;Pennsylvanian&#8221; route will offer daily roundtrip service, stopping in Harrisburg and Philadelphia along the way.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Archive video above: Pittsburgh travelers filled Amtrak trains to New York for Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving parade in 1983<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The full journey between Union Station in downtown Pittsburgh and New York&#8217;s Penn Station will take just over nine hours one way.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amtrak.com\/stations\/pgh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tickets for the route<\/a> will be available later this week.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/get-pittsburgh-s-action-news-4-on-the-go-wtae\/44045498\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">Looking for more news in your area | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WTAE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Subscribe to the WTAE YouTube Channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Amtrak\u2019s second daily route connecting Pittsburgh to New York City will begin service on Nov. 18,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[36118,42393,124058,41707,237,238,139,13206,73,75,74,5607,124059,124056,895,124057,7087,24639,2439],"class_list":["post-301238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-amtrak","tag-archive-video","tag-full-journey","tag-macy","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nov","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-route","tag-second-daily-route","tag-second-pittsburgh-new-york-route","tag-service","tag-thanksgiving-parade","tag-train","tag-union-station","tag-way"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}