How Close (Or Far) Are You From The Nearest Amtrak Station?

[Jack_S]

5 miles from the Buena Park Metrolink station and 8 miles from the Fullerton Amtrak and Metrolink station.  When going to LA in the early AM I take a chance on the BP station, but parking is very tight there, even though I have a Handicapped Placard.

Jack

[tomikawaTT]

An hour and a half and a state line from either Kingman, AZ or Barstow, CA - and no destination conveniently reachable from either that I'm interested in visiting.  None of my preferred destinations are on Amtrak routes.

Chuck

[perrymwarren]

Durham, NC, about 25 mlies. Piedmont and Carolinian. I've never ridden them.

[cordon]

Ten miles from commuter rail, which I always use to get to Dallas Union Station, about 30 miles from here.

BTW, my most recent trip was to the Amtrak-Trains Town Hall Meeting in Chicago.  I thoroughly enjoyed the trip, even though I was a bit ill.

  

 

[BNSF_GP60M]

schlimm

BNSFwatcher

Sorry, but what is the point of this thread? 

 

What is really odd is that this thread resumed after 5 1/2 years!  

Never hurts to dig up old topics. :) Before I moved I lived 3 blocks north of Amtrak but now I its 1.8 miles. 12 trains daily.

[MerrilyWeRollAlong]

23 blocks (1.15 miles) from Amtrak's Pennsylvania Station in New York City with over 100 departures and arrivals to most Amtrak stations east of the Mississippi. No lack of action or choice of trains here.

[DMUinCT]

10 miles to New Britain CT (Amtrak's Springfield to New Haven line), 27 miles to the Northeast Corridor at New Haven.

[ns3010]

For Amtrak, Newark Penn is just under an hour away.

For commuter, there are several NJT stations within 20 minutes. Mount Olive, Netcong, Lake Hopatcong, Mount Arlington, Dover, Denville, Mount Tabor are 20(ish) or less (the closest is 5 miles). Mountain Lakes is probably 25, while Morris Plains and Hackettstown are about 30.

[schlimm]

BNSFwatcher

Sorry, but what is the point of this thread? 

 

What is really odd is that this thread resumed after 5 1/2 years!  

Amtrak in Naperville, 12.7 miles; Metra Bartlett 2.8 miles

[BT CPSO 266]

22 miles, 30 minutes

Allow capacity for park and ride, and just a little more frequent, faster service, and you will be begging me not to travel across the state. 

[Anonymous]

BNSFwatcher

Sorry, but what is the point of this thread?

If you have to ask...then you just don't get it.

[BNSFwatcher]

Sorry, but what is the point of this thread?  I live about 1/4 mile from the Shelby (MT) Amtrak Station (we call them "Depots", out here).  My last residences have been:  Jacksonville Beach, FL - 20 miles from Amtrak (JAX); Stowe, VT - 10 miles from Amtrak (WAB); Rye Brook/Port Chester, NY - 1/4 mile to NH, 10 miles to NYC; Rye, NY - 100' to NH; and Fleetwood (Mount Vernon), NY - 100 yards to NYC.  Are you 'under-cover' for the Senseless Bureau?

Hays

 

[The Butler]

78 miles from St. Louis (90 minutes driving time); Missouri River Runner, Lincoln Service, and Texas Eagle

80 miles for Popular Bluff, Missouri; Texas Eagle

[Phoebe Vet]

15.48 miles from the Charlotte, NC station.  The Crescent, The Carolinian, and The Piedmont.

It will be 13.58 from the new Charlotte Gateway Station when it is completed.  The Gateway station will be reachable via light rail.  The light rail station is 2.32 miles from my home.

[CShaveRR]

The nearest Amtrak station to me would be Naperville, probably about twelve miles away (never measured).

However, we're just under a mile from the nearest Metra station, which is good for hourly (almost) service on weekdays and every other hour on weekends. And once we get there, it's about twenty miles and four blocks to Chicago Union Station, where we can catch Amtrak trains headed north south, and east, as well as west.

[Anonymous]

I'm about 18 or so miles from downtown San Antonio where I can catch either the Sunset Limited or the Texas Eagle.

[Andrew Falconer]

I am 15.4 miles from the Kalamazoo, Michigan Amtrak Station. It takes about 25 minutes to drive there.

[Jerry Pier]

About 10 miles from the VIA Aldershot station that handles Amtrak's Toronto-NYC Service.

[blue streak 1]

passengerfan

Not bad for a city of less than 300,000 people. Eat your hearts out.

Chomp! Chomp! Chomp!!   Code blue code blue

 

[Anonymous]

I'm about 10 miles from both Westborough (MBTA commuter rail, and the station I use every week to go to Boston) and Worcester (Amtrak and MBTA commuter rail).

[bedell]

About 17 miles from Amtrak at Kemper Street station in Lynchburg, VA.  Station served the Crescent and the new Northeast regional train and long distance bus.

[Modelcar]

Back in the 70's we were serviced here {in Muncie}, via C&O and with the running of the Cardinal.....East from Wash. D C to Chicago & return.

Now....That route is the Cardinal Greenway Trail.

And our closest Amtrak station is downtown Indianapolis....Served by Amtrak's, Cardinal / Hoosier State.  Roughly 65 miles southwest from us.

[cacole]

I'm 30 miles from Benson, Arizona on the Union Pacific Sunset Route, which has a flag stop Amshed.  If no one is scheduled to get on or off, the train goes through town at full throttle, and nearly always several hours late.

[diningcar]

Flagstaff, 105 miles or one hour forty minutes.

[ADCX Rob]

33 minutes to Rochester, NY.  Unknown miles, probably about 33.

Google Maps says 33.4 mi.!

[CBQ_Guy]

Oh, I'd say about 15 miles, give or take...

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Overmod

It's about six and a half easy hours by car, with two kids, wife, and wife's 400lb of 'Southern-woman' necessities. I can't .. and I think I prefer it that way... imagine what the logistics of this would be on the rails.

Your trip to Fla. wouldn't be any easier by air, in all fairness.
Families can often travel in comparative comfort by rail compared to the tiny seats on an airplane.

But thanks to federally-funded highway systems, anyone can get anywhere by the almight automobile.
To suggest, however, similar investments in rail transporation, to some policymakers, is pure heresy.

[Anonymous]

I'm about 38 miles from Bryan Ohio.

[passengerfan]

I live within one mile of two Amtrak Stations that are both in service and one mile from the former Western Pacific station in Stockton now sans track. The two amtrak stations are the former Santa Fe and Southern Pacific stations in Stockton. The former SP station sees three ACE (Altamont Commuter Express) trains daily in each direction and two Amtrak San Joaquins daily in each direction between Sacramento and Bakersfield. The former Santa Fe station sees five daily San Joaquins daily in each direction. Not bad for a city of less than 300,000 people. Eat your hearts out.