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

[Anonymous]

About 4 Miles from downtown Champaign, IL. Where you can catch the Illini or City of New Orleans.

[chemung]

19 blocks south and 32 blocks west.

[Anonymous]

About 2 miles from Kirkwood station.

[Anonymous]

About 30 minutes away from Osceola, IA. 2 California Zephyrs per day.

[Overmod]

About 21 miles... easy miles... from Central Station in Memphis.

Now, thereon hangs a tale. I have a house near Blue Mountain Beach in Florida, which is about 31 miles south of Crestview... an Amtrak stop. However, I haven't taken the train, even though the numbers appear to work. Why?...

Schedule, that's why. I have to take CONO south... it goes out around 6:30 in the morning, and then I have to connect eastbound. Look at a schedule and see when I'd get into Crestview, and how much fun I would have had up to that time. Then tot up the total time I would have spent en route. Then look at the schedule on the reverse trip.

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.

Likewise, traveling to New York from here is not exactly a triumph of directness.

[agentatascadero]

macguy, How about Montreal on the Adirondack, or Toronto on the Maple Leaf?

[Anonymous]

about 30 KM from the Vancouver, BC Amtrak/Via Station...

I think it's now the only spot where Amtrak still comes to Canada.

[Anonymous]

Howdy!
I live about 25 miles southeast of Union Station in Kansas City. By the way, this is a very nice spot to park under the bridge and watch trains go by. There are only a couple of Amtrak trains each day but frequent freight moving into and out of KC.
Bob

[DaveBr]

As the crow flys about 1 1/2 miles to where the Amtrak Train stops coming out of Los Angeles.There is no ticket agency here and hasn"t been now
for the last 6 years.I.ve been trying to get Amtrak and the City of Glendale
to put the ticket agency back here.Along with a congressman and a Senator.
Havn't heard anything for a week now.Typical Politics.No 14 stops at 10:30
going north and 8:30 pm coming south.Along with Metro-link.
DaveBr.

[mustanggt]

10 miles from North station in boston

[locomutt]

Wasn't sure Indianapolis still had Amtrak service. They built the new spur here in
Louisville just over a year ago,and now we no longer have Amtrak service.(Louisville Union,
Station,about 20 blocks from our house) I guess the next closest one is Cininniatti,
or maybe Nashville[:)]

[Anonymous]

Roughly 30 miles to the Union Station in Denver, CO.

[jimitimi]

About 35 miles to St Paul and the Empire Builder, but it is quicker ti drive to Red Wing to go southbound as the train takes and hour to get there and I can frive it in an hour!!

[rich747us]

I'm about 25 or so miles from the St. Louis Missouri station (equates to about a 45 minute ride on the Metrolink), although, I do prefer to drive the 40 miles to the east to get on the City of New Orleans at Centralia IL as opposed to the Texas Eagle in St. Louis. Number 58 (northbound City of New Orleans) runs through Centralia at about 4:10 am. The northbound Texas Eagle reaches St. Louis between 10 am to 10:30 am. Being that I like to get an early start when I travel (and I like avoiding the crowds on the Metrolink or roads) I always get on in Centralia. Additionally, 58 has better on time performance from what I've seen. The one time I tried taking the Texas Eagle, it was running 3 hours behind.

[mike-65]

About a mile and a half, mile and a quarter from the station in Hayward. Ca...
Only 5 blocks to the BART station, tho.

[David3]

A good 5 miles to Joliet UD.
Dave [:D]

[CG9602]

About 20 miles, roughly. The nearest station: Red Wing, MN

[agentatascadero]

20 miles from Salinas, 20 miles from Monterey(will we ever get the Del Monte back? It doesn't look good now that the Monterey branch is out of service), in sunny Carmel Valley,CA.

[JPowell]

Depends on where I am in the city of Syracuse NY. From my house, I'm about 5 minutes from the "old" Amtrak station in East Syracuse (also near west end of CSX's DeWitt Yard). To the "new" station, about 10-15 minutes depending on which route I take to get there.

[n7170f]

6 miles to the wilmington, de station. NEC

[halifaxcn]

When I am home I have 3 Amtrak Stations I can use. All are on the NEC
1.) Providence Rhode Island about 8 miles
2.) Route 128 Canton, Mass about 15 miles
3.) South Station Boston about 35 miles

Right now I am about 9,000 miles away in Kharkiv Ukraine about 25 miles from the Russia border. I would love to be back watching corridor action!

Regards
Frank San Severino
Kharhiv Ukraine
At home CP-198
Amtrak NEC
Attleboro, MA

[StillGrande]

About 5 miles (Alexandira, VA) but usually just go to Union Station in DC (a little bit further - Take Metro - save $) to catch Amtrack. For northbound travel, the trains would change locomotives in DC, so you would sit for an hour or two. Just easier to catch the train there.

[Anonymous]

About 12 miles from the Berlin, CT station.

[DTomajko]

Six miles from Amtrak at the Greensburg,Pa. station. It was also restored by the local historical society a few years back. It is home to a resteraunt / micro brewery & offices. The nearest commuter service is the Port Authority Transit lightrail operation in Pittsburgh,about 25 miles away. There has been discussion among local governments about bringing back heavy rail service to Greensburg to the east & New Kensington to the north. Good luck and stay safe.

[cpbloom]

I'm in Columbus OH; is the closest staion in Fostoria, Cincinnati or somewhere closer?

[cstaats]

2.5 miles from the Sounder station in Auburn, WA 16 miles from the Tacoma Amtrak station.

[Anonymous]

Directly across the Hudson River the Rhinecliff-Kingston Station. Kingston used to have a train station but it was torn down[V][:(] I would say........a mile across the river.

[Anonymous]

Within walking distance of Philadelphia's 30th Street Station, the greatest and most beautiful of all Amtrak big-city stations (though LAUPT is great).

[Anonymous]

Out here in the cornyards of North Central Indiana, I'm 35 miles straighht south of the South Shore Line in Michigan City, and 38 miles SW of Amtrak at South Bend.
Mitch

[Anonymous]

About 2 miles to Newark , DE NEC (Not many stops) and 8 miles to Wilmington, DE NEC (many stops).

I also work right across the street from the Wilmington Station.