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[quote user="blue streak 1"] Others have spoken of the poor San Antonia  (SAS )  station.  The following needs no comment. <a href="http://www.foxsanantonio.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/family-holds-funeral-man-killed-at-amtrak-station-5096.shtml#.U8InLu8g-hx">http://www.foxsanantonio.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/family-holds-funeral-man-killed-at-amtrak-station-5096.shtml#.U8InLu8g-hx</a> [/quote] This is unfortunate.  The only bench that is outside of the station is under a flood light.  Moreover, there is a crew there from 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. to switch the through cars to and from the Texas Eagle.  Since he was waiting for a train to Louisiana, it had to be on a night when the Sunset Limited was carrying through cars for the Eagle. Also, the station had an attendant that is on duty all night.  That he would not have heard any cries for help seems a bit odd. Unfortunately, the San Antonio Amtrak Station is in a part of town that is going downhill.  There use to be a lot of businesses on Commerce Street, including a Ruth's Steak House, but it, along with several of the watering holes, have closed, and the area has become seedy. Based on my experience, outside of the major northeast corridor Amtrak stations, as well as some of those in the California corridors and perhaps the Illinois corridors, arriving late at night at an Amtrak station in a major city is not a good idea.
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