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

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railman
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Posted by railman on Wednesday, September 1, 2004 10:55 AM
tossup between the St. Cloud station and the St. Paul depot. Both about 45 minutes away.
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tree68
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Posted by tree68 on Wednesday, September 1, 2004 10:46 AM
About 75 miles to Syracuse, but about 40 from VIA at Gananoque or 60 to Kingston or Brockville...

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Anonymous
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 1, 2004 10:40 AM
At home, 30 miles to Pittsburgh
At school, 25 miles to Tyrone, 30 to Huntingdon, and 40 to Altoona. Altoona is the closest I'd actually use though.
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oltmannd
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Posted by oltmannd on Wednesday, September 1, 2004 7:48 AM
25 miles from Atlanta-Brookwood Sta.

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Anonymous
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 1, 2004 6:43 AM
Roughly 90 miles to Atlanta. One train northbound, one train southbound.

Erik
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MP57313
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Posted by MP57313 on Wednesday, September 1, 2004 12:11 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by espeefoamer
16 miles from Los Angeles,20 miles from Fullerton,which I usually use because parking is free.


20 miles to Los Angeles; 30 to Fullerton. [#ditto] regarding parking (It's $10. at Los Angeles). If I am riding Metrolink on the weekend, I go to Los Angeles in spite of the parking.
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Big_Boy_4005
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Posted by Big_Boy_4005 on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 10:42 PM
About 15 miles to the St Paul Amshack. Two trains daily. One to Chicago in the morning. and one to Seattle at night.

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UPTRAIN
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Posted by UPTRAIN on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 10:23 PM
I'm 10 miles from the nearest station, Poplar Bluff, Texas Eagle services here every day, two times per day.

Pump

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athelney
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Posted by athelney on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 10:15 PM
About 30 miles to Bellingham WA for Amtrak -- but only 8k (5m) to the nearest VIA or West Coast Express commuter station.
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RKFarms
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Posted by RKFarms on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 9:51 PM
About 18 miles from either Lafayette or Crawfordsville, IN stations-if I want to take nearly 4 hours to get to Chicago, which is a 2.5 hour drive. Its frustrating to ride at 79 mph for a while, then 60, then 10 or so for miles getting through the south side of Chcago. Years ago the trip from Lafayette was 2.5 hours, now I believe schedule is over 3 hours if no delays.
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Wdlgln005
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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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jcavinato
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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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Anonymous
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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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Anonymous
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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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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
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M636C
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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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Anonymous
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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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FThunder11
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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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Anonymous
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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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Anonymous
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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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Anonymous
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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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fuzzybroken
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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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Anonymous
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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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spankybird
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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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Modelcar
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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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Willy2
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Posted by Willy2 on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 4:50 PM
About 5 miles.

Willy

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Anonymous
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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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BNSFNUT
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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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Anonymous
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 4:43 PM
6 Miles. NEC.
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espeefoamer
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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.
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