Schenectady

First time visiting this station and I'm very impressed 👏 Cory, who is working here today was incredibly helpful and the station itself is well laid out, clearly signed to all facilities and spotlessly clean A++++ from me

A friend and I traveled from Schenectady to Poughkeepsie. The ride was pleasant and smooth. Didn't experience any turbulence. Would recommend.

Very nice waiting room, elevated, yet missing level boarding, which begs the question: Why? Overall, cute station though.

Please fix the platforms at this station. You guys built a fancy station building but you didn't build new platforms that are accessible to wheelchairs like at Rensselaer. Please make these ada accessible, they are not level with the train. You've done a great job with the building but nowhere else!

I do remember when this train station was built in 1979. I was 16 years old then. In July of that year, when I was 15, me and my family members took a train here from Schenectady, down to New York City, to catch another train to Richmond, Virginia (Highland Springs), where my aunt used to live. In July of that year, when I went with my family, it was not even built yet. It was probably built later that year in 1979. I heard, in 2017, that same train station was demolished (38 years later) in July of that year, and, and it become too small, too cramped, and it showed its age, and its 1979-era modern state-of-the-art futuristic-style design didn't fit in to the historic character of other buildings in downtown Schenectady. When it is built, it will have design elements from Albany's and Schenectady's old Union Station, Utica's, and Rome's Amtrak train station, and it will be much bigger then the old 1979-era station, and its waiting room will look almost very similar to the one in Rome's Amtrak station, Utica's, and Schenectady's old Union Station, instead of its modern state-of-the-art version seen in its 1979 design. Years ago, they should've built the current train station with a similar design of Albany's old Union Station, Schenectady's old Union Station that closed down in 1969, and torn down two years later in 1971, and Utica's or Rome's Amtrak train station, especially, its interior design that fits into downtown Schenectady historic character, instead of the old '70s modern state-of-the-art, futuristic-style design that made downtown Schenectady too unattractive that was built in 1979. At that time, downtown Schenectady should've had much stricter rules​ or regulations to how buildings including the Amtrak Train Station should have been designed before it was built years ago, very similar to the ones that are built in the cities of Albany, Utica, Saratoga Springs or in Rome, NY, instead of the old 1979-era smaller modern state-of-the-art futuristic-style design to make downtown Schenectady too unattractive that did not fit in with its historic character that blended to the rest of its buildings (its planning commission years ago in 1979 should have rejected it, and then instead, make a design of that [Schenectady] Amtrak train station look like the ones built in Albany, Saratoga Springs, Rome, or Utica to make downtown Schenectady attractive), That new train Station opened on October 17, 2018. The Google Maps app includes photos of this new Schenectady Amtrak Train Station from both the inside and outside that Walter Clark downloaded from the All Over Albany website. The interior of the new Schenectady Amtrak Train Station, especially its lobby is like downtown Schenectady's smaller equivalent of New York City's Grand Central Station because of its high ceiling, its large arch windows, marble walls, and its marble floor. The old 1979-era Amtrak Train Station didn't have all that. The old 1979-era Schenectady Amtrak Station was deemed a part of, or was like a part of a third-world country because of its roof was considered dilipated, and it was leaky (see its large 1970's-style font just below the ceiling inside the old Amtrak train station that read that say e.g., Trains, Vending, Elevator, and Tickets & Baggage) and this would be why that the old Schenectady train station was out of date.