They’re chugging at the “speed of Trump.”

The long-promised Penn Station revamp will finally begin by the end of 2027 after President Trump took over the megaproject from the state, federal Department of Transportation officials pledged Wednesday.

US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy unveiled a speedy new timeline for transforming the much-hated transit hub after previous timelines had been vague and promised to finish in “four to five years” from its start.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will announced a new timeline for the long-awaited Penn Station revamp. AP

“We are going to move at the speed of Trump,” Duffy said, as he left the door open to renaming the hub in the president’s honor.

“This is not going to be a 20-, 30-year project. This is not about a backroom thinking about how we can spend money and develop plans that never deliver. This is actually about how do we move this more quickly and more beautifully through the process.” 

The timeline will be turbo-charged with a $43 million grant to Amtrak, which is now in charge of overhauling dank and depressing Penn Station, Duffy said.

President Trump effectively fired the MTA from the Penn Station project in April.

The Penn Station project will begin by the end of 2027. Michael Nagle

Trump effectively fired the MTA from the project in April, putting the feds in charge after years of stops and starts by the state-run agency.

The move put two parallel Penn Station projects under the same umbrella — one to reconstruct the crumbling building and another to expand its rail capacity.

White House officials later brought on Andy Byford, the much-respected former president of NYC Transit cheekily known as “Train Daddy,” to lead the project.

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Byford, speaking alongside Duffy in the decrepit warrens of the current Penn Station, teased that the project’s new direction could start from a clean slate – including on cost. 

The MTA’s past Penn Station proposals carried a $7 billion estimated price tag.

“The amount is not determined. I want to see what the ideas are and then we’ll talk about the money,” Byford said.

The ideas will come as Byford kicks off the process Thursday of selecting a master developer, officials said. The developer is expected to be selected by the end of May 2026, with preliminary design to follow.

Byford said the competition for plans will not specify whether to move Madison Square Garden or keep it in place on top of the station – two potential outcomes from past proposals.

“It will be an open and fair competition with no preconceived notions of the outcome, but it will be conducted to a very aggressive timeline in order to hit that spade in the ground date of the end of 2027,” he said.

“Everyone likes to talk about the design of the new station, and that’s the fun part. But the transformation of Penn Station must be much more than bricks and mortar. It must be about making the station operationally sound safe, clean and easy to navigate. And I want, in the future, this station to ooze excellence in every form.”

Gov. Kathy Hochul, who withdrew $1.3 billion in state funding for the project after Trump took it over, contended the project moving came after talks she had with the president. 

“With Secretary Duffy now advancing this project and requesting design proposals, New Yorkers are one step closer to a station worthy of this great city,” she said in a statement.

Duffy cheekily hinted the station may take the name of a one-time New York developer.

“I imagine you’re asking, ‘Is this going to be Trump Station?’” he said. “I think that has a nice ring to it.

“That a conversation that could happen at some other point.”

Additional reporting by Vaughn Golden