Amtrak Pere Marquette

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Amtrak Pere Marquette

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I haven't heard anything recently about the status of our GR Amtrak train. Has its existance been spared, or is it still potentially on the chopping block? I would hate to see this train disappear. If anything, it is almost a guaranteed train while sitting in the depot in Holland. I have also riden it from Holland to GR to see what it was like, and I would now like to take the train from GR to Chicago, but I haven't got any time, or $, for at least the next 2 years. So my ability to ride this train it questionable. Hopefully, it will be around for a few years, or even possibly longer.
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You could leave GR at 7:35am and get to Chicago before noon, then catch the one back to GR at 5pm and be in GR after 10pm in one day. Plus with Amtrak's Weekly Specials a one way ticket is $8.60 but their limited to about 8 a day. The Pere Marquette was fun when I went last July.

Here's 370 at Holland back in June 2003.

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Re: Amtrak Pere Marquette

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pudgy wrote:Hopefully, it will be around for a few years, or even possibly longer.
You should try to ride it before the year is out. It will die if congress says yes to Dubya's plans to kill Amtrak's funding. :cry:

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It is still up in the air for the Pere Marquette and Blue water trains as far as the State of Michigan Funding goes.
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