The drive: Roughly 2 hours(about 1.5 hours on Amtrak).
The Las Vegas Amtrak station was located in the PlazaHotel.
Amtrak's Empire Service
and Maple Leaf take you directly into the city.
The Las Vegas Amtrak station was located in the Plaza Hotel.
It is Amtrak's fifth-busiest route, and the railroad's third-busiest in the NEC.
It is the third deadly train accident for Amtrak in less than two months.
Two train stations, Buffalo-Depew and
Buffalo-Exchange Street, serve the city and are operated by Amtrak.
I don't own a car, but instead use public transit, bicycling,
Greyhound, Amtrak, and such.
Yosemite National Park is accessible by buses meeting Amtrak's trains in Merced and Yarts Bus.
Amtrak, the national passenger rail system,
provides service to Portland at Union Station on three routes.
Between Springfield and New York City Amtrak is faster and more expensive than the commuter trains.
Amtrak may be far less romantic than its handsome European counterparts,
but during the Thanksgiving rush, who's quibbling?
Convenient rail service to downtown Chicago and Champaign-Urbana is available through the Amtrak train station in nearby Mattoon.
Even in some of the states it does“serve”,
the biggest city or metro area is not served by Amtrak.
Amtrak's Empire Builder between Chicago
and Seattle stops once daily in each direction at nearby Midway Station in St. Paul.
Milwaukee's Amtrak station was renovated in 2007 to create
the Intermodal Transportation Station near downtown Milwaukee and the Third Ward.
Amtrak abandoned Cincinnati Union Terminal the next year,
opening a smaller station elsewhere in the city on October 29, 1972.
Amtrak's Empire Builder between Chicago
and Seattle stops twice daily in each direction at the newly renovated Saint Paul Union Station.
Sanford, in Greater Orlando, is the southern terminus of the Amtrak Auto Train,
which originates at Lorton, Virginia, south of Washington, DC.
The Miami Amtrak Station is located in the suburb of Hialeah
near the Tri-Rail/Metrorail Station on NW 79 St and NW 38 Ave.
Amtrak passenger trains serve Kansas City, La Plata, Jefferson City, St. Louis, Lee 's Summit, Independence,
Warrensburg, Hermann, Washington, Kirkwood, Sedalia, and Poplar Bluff.
Of the seven Ohio stations served by Amtrak, Cincinnati was the third busiest in FY2010,
boarding or disembarking an average of approximately 40 passengers daily.
Miami is the southern terminus of Amtrak's Atlantic Coast services,
running two lines, the Silver Meteor and the Silver Star, both terminating in New York City.
Amtrak trains, including the high speed Acela Express serve
Baltimore's Penn Station, BWI Airport, New Carrollton, and Aberdeen along the Washington D.C. to Boston Northeast Corridor.
Florida is served by Amtrak: Sanford, in Greater
Orlando, is the southern terminus of the Amtrak Auto Train, which
originates at Lorton, Virginia, south of Washington, DC.
Abidor was travelling from Montreal to New York on an Amtrak train in May 2010 when he had his laptop searched
and confiscated by customs officers.
Alaska is not served by Amtrak but does have train service through the Alaska Railroad,
which mainly serves a corridor between Seward and Fairbanks via Anchorage.
Plans to restore Los Angeles to Las Vegas Amtrak service using a Talgo train have been discussed
but no plan for a replacement has been implemented.
Once in the South,
it is possible to get around without a car by taking Amtrak and Megabus,
but by car is certainly the preferred method of travel.
The USA‘s national rail operator Amtrak won't get you everywhere you want to go, but
it's an excellent way to explore this vast country on a budget.