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WASHINGTON DC AREA

Amtrak's Union Station
 

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Amtrak's Union Station.  It's been beautifully restored, and serves as DC's link to the eastern seaboard and beyond by Amtrak's passenger trains and MARC and VRE's commuter trains.  It contains a very nice shopping and eating mall, and a station on the Red Line of the DC Metro. 

Getting to the station is best done by parking somewhere else and taking a train or the Metro in.  Commuter tickets on the VRE and MARC are relatively inexpensive.

If you come by car, you can also check out the Metro shops and the Ivy City yard just north of here.

Signals in and out of the station area are B&O dwarf CPL's placed on signal bridges, and it looks like the last signal on the NE Corridor is also a CPL (behind a motel on New York Ave).

New 02/17/2008
Last Modified: 03/18/2008