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New York Part 2: The Empire Service Train

5 October 2026

  • Added to Eric Scouten :: Travel on 7 October 2026
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This morning, I returned to the city to start a series of meetings with my team in New York City. I used Amtrak’s Empire Service train — not to be confused with the Empire Builder which serves the Midwest and Pacific Northwest — and was treated to some wonderful morning fog and sunrise photos of the Hudson River.

A wide, calm river stretches across the foreground beneath a hazy, pale gray sky, with a dense line of trees along the far bank catching warm golden morning light. Mist softens the far shoreline on the right, and the autumn foliage glows orange and yellow above darker green growth.
north of Hudson, New York
A brick lighthouse building and a green navigation marker rise from the misty water of a river at dawn, with a wooded shoreline partly obscured by heavy fog and low cloud filling the pale sky.
Tivoli, New York
A calm bay in early morning light with a wooded shoreline of trees in fall colors — green, gold, and orange — mirrored in the still water, under a hazy sky with low clouds; a faint reflection on a window suggests the shot was taken from indoors.
Tivoli Bays Wildlife Management Area, south of Tivoli, New York
A tree-lined shoreline in early autumn glows with warm morning light, its green foliage accented by patches of orange and red, reflected in the calm water of a bay beneath a pale blue sky with soft peach-tinted clouds.
Tivoli Bays Wildlife Management Area, south of Tivoli, New York
A broad river at dawn with a red tugboat pushing a barge along the far shore, backed by a forested ridge touched with early autumn color and a long bank of clouds glowing in warm morning light. A couple of birds soar over the water against a pale blue sky.
Barrytown, New York
A long steel truss bridge spans a wide river in warm early-morning light, its concrete piers reflecting on the calm water. Low clouds hang over tree-lined banks with hints of autumn color and distant hills beyond.
Kingston–Rhinecliff Bridge · north of Rhinecliff, New York
A tugboat pushing a long cargo barge along a broad, calm river in warm early morning light, with a tree-lined far shore dotted with buildings and a bank of low clouds beneath a pale blue sky.
south of Rhinecliff, New York
A calm, wide river in early morning light, with a small white lighthouse on a wooded shoreline and a red buoy floating in the water. Low tree-covered hills line the far bank beneath a pale sky with soft clouds.
south of Rhinecliff, New York
A sailboat with its mast bare sits moored on calm river water in the morning light, with a forested shoreline and exposed pale rock cliffs rising beyond, under a soft hazy sky with scattered clouds.
south of New Hamburg, New York
A view from water level beneath two parallel steel truss bridges spanning a wide river, their tall concrete piers rising from the water and lit warmly by low morning sun against a clear blue sky, with wooded hills and shoreline buildings in the distance.
Newburgh–Beacon Bridge · Beacon, New York
The ruins of Bannerman Castle on Pollepel Island in the Hudson River, its crumbling brick walls, turret, and overgrown vegetation glowing in warm early-morning light, with calm water in the foreground and wooded hills along the far shore under a pale clear sky.
Bannerman Castle · Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York
A rounded, tree-covered mountain with a prominent bare granite cliff face rising above the far bank of a wide, calm river under a clear pale blue morning sky. Warm early light catches the rock and foliage, with hints of autumn color in the trees along the shoreline.
north of Cold Spring, New York
A long freight train runs along the far shore of a calm, wide river below forested hills dotted with houses, under a mostly clear blue sky, with the scene reflected in the still water in the foreground.
south of Cold Spring, New York
A steel suspension bridge spans a wide river, with its tall tower and lattice cables lit by warm morning light, backdrop of forested hills showing early autumn color under a clear blue sky. A smaller steel truss railway bridge sits lower along the far shoreline.
Bear Mountain Bridge · west of Peekskill, New York
A view across the Hudson River toward the steep columnar basalt cliffs of the Palisades, rising above a dense forested slope just beginning to show autumn color under soft morning light. A hazy pale blue sky stretches above the ridgeline, with a bank of low cloud or mist on the right.
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
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Albany to New York, New York · 230 km / 143 mi

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