October
2009 - Football Special
Carolinian
Our
feature train of the month is the Carolinian. The Carolinian travels
daily between New York City and Charlotte, North Carolina serving the
North Carolina communities of Rocky Mount, Wilson, Selma-Smithfield,
Raleigh, Cary, Durham, Burlington, Greensboro, High Point, Salisbury,
Kannapolis along the way.
Curretnly both the north
and south bound Carolinian leave the two destination cities in the
morning and complete their journey mid-evening of the same day. The
Carolinian and the regional Piedmont train, that runs between Raleigh
and Charlotte, are financed and operated in partner ship with the Stat
of North Carolina.
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Charlotte, NC
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-- Carolinian Route --
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New York, NY
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NFL
Cities by Train
We
decided to have some football fun this season and check out how we
would
travel by train to an NFL game if we got the hankering. Links to the
NFL franchises and stadiums and the long distance Amtrak trains that
serve the franchise cities are provided below. This list also serves as
a handy guide to the current, ever
changing Stadium names. Only three
NFL cities currently
don't have convenient train service. They are Green Bay, Tennessee
(Nashville) and Phoenix. Phoenix is served by the Sunset Limited but
the stadium is 53 miles north of the Maricopa, Arizona
station.
Here's hoping that
your
team clobbers the other guys! Relax on your train trip to the NFL city
of your choice and back!
Note: All external links
are designed
to open in a new tab or new
window so that his letter remains open in it's original window.
NFL Logo courtesy
AFC
East
AFC
West
AFC
North
AFC
South
| City/Team |
Stadium |
Trains |
Station
to Stadium
Distance |
| Houston
Texans |
Reliant
Stadium
2 Reliant
Park, Houston, TX |
Sunset
Limited |
8.2
miles SSW of HOS Map |
| Indianapolis
Colts |
Lucas
Oil
Stadium
500 S
Capitol Ave, Indianapolis, IN |
Cardinal
Hoosier
State |
1 block
SWof
IND Map |
| Jacksonville
Jaguars |
Jacksonville
Municipal Stadium
1 Stadium
Place, Jacksonville, FL |
Silver
Star
Silver
Meteor |
8.2
miles SE of
JAX Map |
| Tennessee
Titans |
LP
Field
1 Titans
Way, Nashville, TN |
City
of New Orleans
stops in Fulton, KY, Newbern, TN and Memphis, TN |
Over
100 miles from all City of New Orleans station stops Map |
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NFC
East
NFC
West
NFC
North
NFC
South
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News at Rail Passenger USA
Antwerp
Ray
deciced to take some time off in September, so there was no newsletter
issued last month. When he takes time off the old guy gets grouchy,
so we decided to post another link on the Favorites
Page of railpassengerusa.com
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in the Antwerp
Belgium Central Station. When we first viewed it this spring, it had
only been viewed about 40,000 times. It has since been viewed over 11.5
million times. You have our money back guarantee that viewing
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