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The original station serving Bloomington-Normal was Bloomington Union Depot. [5] This station was located on Bloomington's west side, just south of West Washington Street and on the west side of the Chicago & Alton Railroad tracks. [5] [6] It had been constructed in the mid-1880s, and survived well into the Amtrak era because Bloomington-Normal ...
30th Street Station in Philadelphia Omaha station in Omaha, Nebraska, designed as part of the Amtrak Standard Stations Program This is a list of train stations and Amtrak Thruway stops used by Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation in the United States). This list is in alphabetical order by station or stop name, which mostly corresponds to the city in which it is located. If an ...
The Bloomington-Normal Amtrak station is in Normal at 11 Uptown Circle. It was designed by RATIO Architects. The station is served daily by four Lincoln Service trains in each direction between Chicago and St. Louis, and one Texas Eagle in each direction between San Antonio and Chicago. Three days a week, the Eagle continues on to Los Angeles.
Bloomington–Normal, officially known as the Bloomington, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area, is a metropolitan statistical area in Central Illinois anchored by ...
Bloomington is serviced by passenger rail, bus service, and several airlines. Amtrak, from its Bloomington-Normal station, operates five trains in each direction between St. Louis and Chicago each day. The station also serves connecting bus service to Peoria and Amtrak stations in Galesburg and Champaign-Urbana.
However, Amtrak rerouted the Chief away from Chillicothe in 1996. Since then, the nearest Amtrak station is at Normal's Uptown Station, 40 miles (64 km) to the east, which is served by the Lincoln Service and Texas Eagle. Amtrak operates Amtrak Thruway service between Peoria and Normal.
The facility opened in January 1999 and provides Amtrak train service and various bus services to the Champaign-Urbana area. In 2021, the facility had the second-highest ridership in Illinois, behind Chicago Union Station and ahead of Uptown Station in Bloomington, with just over 103,000 passengers serviced.
The train traffic, including Amtrak, will be re-routed onto a non-street-running right-of-way operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway. The new Springfield train station will serve trains on the new route. [1] In 2021, the projected cost of the transportation center rose from $80 million to $86 million. [2]