Huntingdon station (Amtrak)

This article is about an Amtrak railroad station in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. For the station on Market-Frankford Line in Philadelphia, see Huntingdon (SEPTA station). For the station in West Virginia, see Huntington station (West Virginia). For the station in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, see Huntingdon railway station.
Huntingdon

The current station platform for Amtrak's Pennsylvanian, seen in June 2013
Location Fourth and Allegheny Streets
Huntingdon, PA 16652
Coordinates 40°29′2″N 78°0′40″W / 40.48389°N 78.01111°W / 40.48389; -78.01111
Owned by Amtrak
Line(s)
Platforms 1 side platform
Tracks 2
Other information
Station code HGD
History
Opened 1872
Traffic
Passengers (2015) 6,616[1]Decrease 2.7%
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station
toward Pittsburgh
Pennsylvanian
  Former services  
Pennsylvania Railroad
Warrior Ridge
toward Chicago
Main Line
Mill Creek

Huntingdon is an Amtrak railway station located at 4th and Allegheny Streets in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, approximately 95 miles northwest of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and 30 miles east of Altoona, Pennsylvania. The station is located at the south end of the borough, along one of the major streets into Huntingdon (4th Street), just north of the Juniata River.

The station was originally built by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1872, and shared service with the Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad, which had a station across the tracks. The station house was closed by PRR in 1965,[2] and is currently a local business. It also contained a signal house, which for a time served as a rail museum but now houses the Huntingdon County Chamber of Commerce.[3] Efforts to save the former H&BTM station failed when it was demolished in 2001.[4]

Huntingdon is currently only served by Amtrak's Pennsylvanian, which operates once per day in each direction. Until 2005, Huntingdon was served by a second daily train, the Three Rivers (a replacement service for the legendary Broadway Limited), an extended version of the Pennsylvanian that terminated in Chicago. Upon its cancellation, the sole Pennsylvanian marked the first time in Huntingdon's railway history that the town was served by just a single, daily passenger train.

The station is actually a shack-like, but structurally sound building. There is no ticket office at this station. Though most of the Pennsylvanian route between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh transverses through rural, sparsely populated areas, Huntingdon is the only stop between the two aforementioned cities that does not have bus service, either local or intercity, of any kind within one mile of the station.

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The former Pennsylvania Railroad station at Huntingdon, just behind the current station
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