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

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Anonymous
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How Close (Or Far) Are You From The Nearest Amtrak Station?
Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 3:07 PM
There have been several topics on here talking about high speed and commuter rail and what should be done about them. But, how close does everyone live to an Amtrak or commuter rail station?
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 3:09 PM
I'm about 28 miles from the nearest one, Spartanburg, SC, which has some rather bad hours for the north-south service on the Crescent. Second closest station that serves other trains than the Crescent would be Charlotte, NC which is a good 90 miles away.
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Posted by csxns on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 3:18 PM
10 Miles Gastonia NC .Crescent LTD.

Russell

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Posted by jeaton on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 3:31 PM
About 15 to the Metra Harvard, Il station or 22 to Fox Lake. The latter line goes into Chicago Union Station and my ticket to over 500 Amtrak destinations. (or so)

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Posted by corwinda on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 4:00 PM
About 20 miles from the Eugene, OR station.
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JoeKoh
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Posted by JoeKoh on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 4:10 PM
The amtrak shak in Bryan is about 20 miles away. The station in Fostoria is about 90 min away.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 4:17 PM
I have my choice of two. #1 is in Davis Ca. about 25mi and #2 is in downtown Sacramento Ca. 40mi away. It all depends which way I'm going as to what station I use.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 4:24 PM
I live 27 miles from the Omaha,neb. train station.
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cbq9911a
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Posted by cbq9911a on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 4:26 PM
About 25 miles from Chicago Union Station.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 4:32 PM
About 45 miles to Port Kent, NY on Lake Champlain. About 3 to 4 hours by bicycle.

Wayne
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Posted by espeefoamer on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 4:37 PM
!6 miles from Los Angeles,20 miles from Fullerton,which I usually use because parking is free.
Ride Amtrak. Cats Rule, Dogs Drool.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 4:43 PM
6 Miles. NEC.
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Posted by BNSFNUT on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 4:46 PM
About 70 miles to the Syracuse NY station.

There is no such thing as a bad day of railfanning. So many trains, so little time.

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 4:49 PM
About 15 miles. But I am only 12 miles from work!
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Posted by Willy2 on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 4:50 PM
About 5 miles.

Willy

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Posted by Modelcar on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 4:59 PM
....About 65 miles to Indianapolis....Cardinal and Hoosier State...Believe they both still run.

Quentin

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Posted by spankybird on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 5:13 PM
I am about 15 miles east of the one in Cleveland, Ohio. To bad the times are in the middle of the night.


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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 5:19 PM
23 miles from Cleburne, 32 miles from Fort Worth, Texas..... The Texas Eagle and the Heartland Flyer.....

Fort Worth is also end of track for the Trinity River Express.....

DFW Airport is further, 45 miles away....
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Posted by fuzzybroken on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 5:21 PM
Heh... great topic. The Amtrak station I'm closest to isn't built yet -- Milwaukee Airport station, ~2 miles away, will be good fer catchin' Hiawathas once it's done. Otherwise downtown is ~5 miles away.

Wonder how railfan-friendly the new station will be? [%-)]

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 5:30 PM
70 miles to Portage, WI from Stevens Point.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 5:50 PM
about 8 miles to an Amtrak station, but not even 1 mile to the nearest commuter.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 6:16 PM
Two choices: about 30 minutes from Baltimore's Penn Station, and, BWI (Baltimore Washington International) near BWI airport in Linthicum, Md., the land of 125mph trains. [;)]
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Posted by FThunder11 on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 7:08 PM
About 70 miles to Denver, Colorado.
Kevin Farlow Colorado Springs
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 7:54 PM
32 miles for Amtrak at Effingham,IL. 4 trains daily.
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Posted by M636C on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 8:09 PM
I'm about 400 metres from the nearest commuter station in Sydney, Australia, but that's about 15000 miles from the nearest Amtrak station (San Diego?).

Peter
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lechee
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Posted by lechee on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 8:12 PM
7 Miles 1 AMTRAK train each way Flagstaff AZ
REDSRAIL
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 8:29 PM
about 10 miles to princeton, IL. 6 trains daily and if they're on time, pretty convienent hours...early afternoon i believe for most, one or 2 late morning.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 8:46 PM
9 miles, door to door- Charlotte, NC
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Posted by jcavinato on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 8:56 PM
About 60 miles away, Maricopa, Arizona. Closest station to Phoenix.

Three Amtrak trains a week in each direction (with untrusted near complete random service times). The airport van guy who serves our town gets business about once a week to take or pick up people at Maricopa. He says there have been trips as much as eight hours off schedule. One pick up was from the eastbound train, stopped for six hours, that they could see from the station but could not pick up his off loading passengers. He found a way to communicate with a crewman using his cell phone on that one.
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Posted by Wdlgln005 on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 9:22 PM
About 200 miles to Memphis TN station. 2 trains daily, NB or SB City of New Orleans. Police dispatch in the building, so park with the officers.
Glenn Woodle
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