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There are a few city pairs that are linked by Amtrak overnight, for example Pittsburgh->Chicago, Buffalo->Chicago, Omaha->Denver, Flagstaff->LA, Salt Lake City

• jnxx 6y ago
  As an aside, I used Amtrak to travel from Rochester, NY to NYC and it was totally weird when I asked people in Rochester (which has a population of about 200,000) for the train station. Most people literally didn't know where the train station of their city was! And it turned out to be as small as a regional rail or European sub-urb S-train stop. Only two platforms with no people on it.
  • estaseuropano 6y ago
    For context: medium sized European city will have anything from 12-30 platforms - and often several main train stations and several dozen local ones in the city. E.g. Brussels, Paris or Berlin have several huge stations.
    • matkoniecz 6y ago
      12-30 is a bit overkill. Kraków, Poland with 780k inhabitants has "only" 10 https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/50.06881/19.94768&layers=T https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/50.06881/19.94768&laye...
      • the8472 6y ago
        A terminus needs at least double the amount of platforms to sustain the throughput of a regular station.
  • fishtoaster 6y ago
    Rochester Native here, and yep: I've never been to the rail station. Probably because the frequent, short flights to NYC are relatively cheap. Checking amtrak vs delta for a random date in january, your options are a 7-9 hour train ride for $54 in coach, or a 1hour flight for $64 in economy basic.]