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Twin Star Rocket

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The two most notorious examples that come to mind are San Marcos, TX (years ago) and Borie, WY.

Then Beaumont joined that list until very recently.

San Antonio also had no functional depot at the site where the INTER-AMERICAN picked up and dropped passengers. There was the old MP depot nearby but Amtrak never used it.

I'm sure there were others. Sanderson TX is on that list since the old depot there was abandoned and recently demolished.
 
There is too many to name, however these come to mind off hand:

  • Deming, NM
  • Ontario, CA
  • Elko, NV
  • Port Henry, NY


You could also add Mystic, CT. It does have a former depot at the site, but it's not used at all by Amtrak. It's the C of C for the town, and is not open when 66 or 67 come thru in the middle of the night.
 
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Williams Junction, Arizona for sure! ;) (Interesting that you mentioned San Marcos, my Old Hometown! There used to be 2 Depots there, MOPAC and the Katy (M-K-T), one is now used as a Donut Shop and the other is a Resturant/Bar). The current "Station" is a Roof over a couple of Benches with a Platform! The Intermodel Station for the Busses/Parking etc. is about 100 yards behind this So Called Station, not on the Tracks! :blink: )
 
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Picayune, MS...a gazebo with a circular bench under the roof.
 
Somewhere in Eastern Colorado was a covered bench just like I see here in Delaware for our buses.

Provo has a pravillon.
 
A couple years ago I was on the SW Chief from ABQ to VRV on the first Saturday in November. We arrived in Barstow 20 minutes "late" and sat next to the old Harvey House for 40 minutes and left "on time" early Sunday morning.

The old Harvey House is owned by the Barstow C of C and there is a Route 66 Museum in a corner of it. It is never open when there is a train in the station.

Remember to set your clocks back an hour tonight.
 
Mount Joy, PA.

http://trainweb.org/usarail/mtjoy.htm

This is on the electrified 110 mph, multiple frequencies per day, Keystone Line. They're planning to build an entirely new station, which may not surprise you if you look at the pictures of the current one.

That USA rail guide is actually quite a comprehensive resource for answering questions like this.
 
Jesup GA.

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Jesup actually has a brand new station. But...The previous station burned about 8 years ago and only recently has been rebuilt. It is actually not open yet. they rebuilt within the brick structure of the old station. I spoke to someone Friday night, and she said that it had been empty for years before it burned. The woman who runs the tourist office in a little red caboose said it took 8 years to rebuild because they were trying to get the grant money released by the state (GA). Once they got it, it went pretty fast. She expects to move in. Amtrak pays 'rent' by the month. but why? It is an unmanned station...Pretty, yes. Historic...maybe. The end pictured has a tiled floor and restrooms. Will it be open when trains are expected (2 a day)? Who will open it and lock it up?

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There is a gazebo placed by Jesup Railfans, and it has a speaker that you can turn on and listen to the conductor as the train approaches. CJ
 
On the CONO/Illini/Saluki Route:

Hazlehurst, MS: There is a depot on site, but it is not used by Amtrak. Platform has a bus-style shelter.

Yazoo City, MS: Just a platform with a canopy over some benches.

Gilman, IL: Platform with bus-style shelter.
 
In December, 2001, we met an older friend of ours at the Amtrak stop in North Jeffersonville, Indiana. It was right after 9/11 and our friend who was in his uppers 80s was reluctant to fly. We lived in Roswell, GA at the time so we drove to Jeffersonville. Our friend traveled from St Paul Midway Station to Jeffersonville on the Empire Builder and Kentucky Cardinal with a Superliner roomette the entire way. We took our two dogs who got to spend the night in a motel and then we got up in the early am to meet the Kentucky Cardinal at the platform in North Jeffersonville at the L&I yard which had been the Pennsylvania yard for many years. It was convenient because he got off the Superliner Sleeper and walked accross the platform to our car. The dogs were right there to greet him when he got off the train. One of the dogs barked at him because he didn't recognize our friend right away because he thought he was a stranger until he got in nose distance. On the return trip around February 1, 2002, our friend departed from Louisville Union Station's single track on the Northbound, Kentucky Cardinal. Before his departure we had a delicious dinner in the restaurant in the Brown Hotel, 6 blocks down Broadway from Union Station. I had lived in the Louisville area during college and had departed Union Station in Louisville as well as Pennsylvania Station in Jeffersonville many times. Penn Station in Jeffersonville was moved from its original site on northside of Jeffersonville to downtown and is a museum. That trip in the 21st century brought back many memories.
 
Durham, NC and Burlington, NC at the outset. Also, the Charlotte-Raleigh trains including 79/80 have a seasonal stop at the NC State Fairgrounds in Raleigh without a shelter.
 
Stanwood, WA, a stop for Cascades trains, is another. And, for the time being, technically Sandpoint, ID can be thrown into the conversation, as in 2009, the waiting room of the historic 1916 NP depot there was closed due to structural damage, and passengers can only use the platform now. For a time, the whole building's future was up in the air as a highway reconstruction project in Sandpoint involving the rerouting of US highway 95 put the proposed route 40 feet from the west entrance of the station, prompting concerns about accessibility for emergency vehicles and buses.The Idaho Transportation Department had paid BNSF about $922,000 to either stabilize the old building or design and build a new one. For a while, it was uncertain if the old building would still be used or another new facility built elsewhere; indeed, there was some talk of locating the EB's Northern Idaho stop to a different municipality altogether, though Northern Idaho doesn't exactly have a huge amount of towns to choose from for possible relocation of the station.

In the end, Amtrak, BNSF, and the city of Sandpoint agreed to keep the stop at its current location. BNSF will lease the station to Amtrak who in turn will sublease it to Sandpoint, and the structure will be rehabilitated with the money the ITD gave to BNSF. This will allow the waiting room to be used by passengers again. In addition, a new, ADA-compliant platform will be built. This work should all be completed the next couple of years or so.

There! A very long answer to a simple question! :p
 
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