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Albany-Rensselaer is an Amtrak station located on East Street in the city of Rensselaer, New York, though made to serve the nearby city of Albany.  Services The station serves these routes: Amtrak:  • Adirondack: Montreal - NYC via Plattsburgh. 1 train per day per direction •  Berkshire Flyer - NYC to Pittsfield, MA. This is a seasonal train, only operating once every few days, and on weekends only.  • Empire Service: NYC - Albany/Rensselaer - Niagara Falls. Eight trains run to NYC from Rensselaer, five from NYC to Rensselaer, and two all the way from NYC to Niagara Falls.  • Ethan Allen Express: NYC - Burlington (VT) via Albany/Rensselaer. 1 train per day per direction • Lake Shore Limited: This is essentially two trains in one, both with one train per day per direction. This is specifically Chicago - Boston and Chicago - NYC, and both split off at Albany-Rensselaer station.  • Maple Leaf: NYC - Toronto. One train a day per direction. Jointly o...

Indianapolis Union Station is a station served by Amtrak's Cardinal train and numerous intercity buses, most notably from Greyhound.  History Indianapolis Union Station was the second ever Union station in the United States, built in 1853 by the Madison and Indianapolis railroad. The original station building eventually became too small for the demand faced, and a newer large station building was built in 1888 with the leadership of the civil engineer Thomas Rodd. A large train shed built in a similar style to the likes of Newark Penn was built for the station in 1900.    There once was a time where one could get to fifteen different states with one train from Indianapolis station, with trains going to Chicago, Saint Louis, New York City, and Miami, as well as many destinations in between. Those days are no more. The fall of American passenger rail hit Indianapolis Union station  hard , and it never truly recovered. The most recent example of this is with...

Huntington, WV is a station served by Amtrak's Cardinal train. The station is located at 8th Avenue and 10th Street in Huntington's South Side neighborhood.  History Huntington, WV's history as a town is directly intertwined with the railroad. Originally, Huntington was the terminus for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, and was a community planned from the ground up for this purpose. The original C&O depot was built in 1871. Multiple other railroads came to Huntington to compete with the C&O, including the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O). This depot was replaced in 1913 with a more grand building.  Rail traffic to Huntington decreased following the US rail industry's bear collapse in the 1950s. As though it was a sign of the station's fate, The late 1960s was the time when Amtrak into existence, and with that the Amtrak Station Standardization Program. This meant that a new passenger station was to be built, in the same style as many others around th...

Downtown Transit Center is a station along Amtrak's I-41 Thruway bus line in the downtown of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The station is also the main hub for Go Transit, the main transit system of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. This is a different Go Transit than the one of Toronto, Ontario.   Very little about the history of this station is known, past that it was rebuilt in 1994, and that an office was built in 2018 or so.  Services Back of the transit center There are many routes that go through here, these include: Amtrak Amtrak runs the I-41 Thruway bus, a bus that goes between Milwaukee and Green Bay via the Fox Cities ran by Lamers Connect and through-ticketed on Amtrak. Two trips a day are ran in a specially branded bus, while one other trip is in a Lamers Connect bus. That makes six trips per direction total. This bus connects to Amtrak at Milwaukee Intermodal and Milwaukee International Airport. Coach USA/Van Galders Though the Van Galders bus company, Coac...