NB – Metro-North Railroad has discontinued their Wassaic – Gt. Barrington, MA – Bill’s Pharmacy, 362 Main St.:īonanza Bus New York-Pittsfield-Williamstown-Bennington. The following Berkshire towns are served by common carriers such as Amtrak, Peter Pan Bus (80), and Bonanza Bus (80): Bus to/from Gt. Getting to the Berkshires by Peter Pan bus and Amtrak train The train-bus connection that Metro-North provided from Grand Central in NYC to Wassaic, NY and then by bus to Gt. But today, public transportation to and from the Berkshires is pretty much limited to the bus, except for the Lake Shore Limited between Boston and Chicago IL which leaves Pitsfield west bound at 2:10PM and east bound at 5:52PM. Lenox in the Berkshires Sunday after TanglewoodĪround the turn of the last century, at the height of the Gilded Age, there were a dozen trains daily from New York city to Lenox and Pittsfield, and in the 1940s, “ski trains” delivered 40,000 city dwellers to Bousquet’s in Pittsfield. The only Amtrak service to and from Berkshire county is the daily Amtrak Lake Shore Limited to Boston, Springfield, Albany NY & Chicago IL. The Berkshire Regional Intermodal Transportation Center in downtown Pittsfield is the only real bus depot in Berkshire county, but the towns and cities listed below are served by major carriers, including Peter Pan Bus and Bonanza bus.

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