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Grand Canyon National Park: Five Tips to Effectively Travel to the Grand Canyon by Amtrak and Bus
Although the Grand Canyon became federally protected in 1893, it did not become a national park until 1919. The park’s uniqueness comes from it sheer size: 277 river miles long, up to 18 miles wide, and a mile deep. In fact, the Grand Canyon is so large that it has two main points of entry, the North and South Rims, which are 215 miles apart for each other.
Fortunately, Grand Canyon National Park’s South Rim has Amtrak service close by on the Southwest Chief. You literally have automobile, train and bus alternatives. Here are five tips/hints for effectively traveling to/from the Grand Canyon by land:
One: If you wish to take the train right up to the Canyon, you can board the Grand Canyon Railway. Once you disembark at Williams Junction, you can take the free shuttle service to the Grand Canyon Hotel and Railway. For those arriving from the west, there is a five hour layoff before the 9:30 am departure to the Canyon. If you are going back west, the train leaves the Canyon at 3:30 pm and arrives at the Grand Canyon Hotel at 5:45 pm. This leaves you with about 3 ½ hours before the shuttle takes you back to the Williams Junction Amtrak station.
Coming from the east, it is not as convenient. Since the Southwest Chief arrives in the late evening, you will probably want to take the shuttle to the Grand Canyon Hotel and stay the night. The hotel is well-appointed and resembles the original Santa Fe Railroad hotel in Williams. After a good breakfast, you will be ready for the 9:30 am departure described above. Going back east, you may also wish to rent a hotel room since the train leaves Williams Junction in the early morning.
Two: If you prefer to travel by bus to the canyon, there is convenient service from the Flagstaff Amtrak station provided by Open Road Shuttle. For those arriving from the west, there is a three hour layover before the 8:00 am departure to the Canyon. If you are going back west, the bus leaves the Maswik Lodge at 6:15 pm and arrives at the Flagstaff Amtrak station at 8:00 pm, which is about an hour before your departure on the Southwest Chief.
Coming from the east, again, it is less convenient. Upon your late evening arrival in Flagstaff, you will probably want to reserve a hotel room before taking the 8:00 am departure described above. Going back east, you may also wish to rent a hotel room since the train leaves Flagstaff in the morning.
Three: You may wish to reserve a rental car for maximum flexibility. Since the Amtrak arrivals and departures in the area are not doing normal business hours, you should probably rent from an airport facility that has extended hours. Your best bet to find such a facility by the Grand Canyon is at the Flagstaff Pulliam Airport. Check with your rental car agency to see whether they can pick you up at the train station or if you will need to take a taxi to get there.
Four: If you really want to go to the North Rim and do not have a car, there is a bus service run by Transcanyon Shuttle. The service leaves the South Rim at 1:30 pm and arrives at the North Rim 4 ½ hours later. The return bus leaves the North Rim at 7:00 am. Obviously, the service runs only form mid-May to mid-October when the North Rim is open.
Five: The Southwest Chief is an all-reserved train. Whether you are experiencing Amtrak’s coach service or the Superliner sleeping accommodations, you must make advanced reservations. By buying your tickets in advance for both Amtrak and local transportation services near the Grand Canyon, you may be able to receive discounted advance purchase fares or special fares for students and seniors.
About the Author
Charles Self is the editor of the Amtrak Train Stations Across America website. At http://www.passengertraininfo.com/grandcanyon.aspx you will find additional information on traveling to the Grand Canyon and Amtrak train stations.
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Amtrak Trains at Sunset $39.99 Skip Brown Amtrak Trains at Sunset - Photographic Print |
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American Passenger Trains: WWII to Amtrak $22.81 Passenger Trains played an important role in the growth of traveling across America or to the nearest city--the height of its service after WWII until the start up of Amtrak. This book provides railroad hobbyists, historians, museum operators, and transportation instructors and planners with information about the types of train services and operations in various corridors, such as Chicago - Milwaukee; the overnight and daytime long distance service; transcontinental trains, and the various types of local trains on both main lines and branch lines. The book reviews the types of sleeping car, coach, parlor car, food and beverage services available at that time. The equipment and service such as vista dome coaches, dining and lounge cars with many types of meals and beverages, sleeping accommodations and coach seats including reclining and leg rests were drawing cards for passenger traffic. This historic review, including train schedules and advertisements, provides information on train consists which is valuable for creating model railroad layout size trains. |
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New Ray Amtrak Toy Train Set With Tracks $30.4 New Ray Amtrak Toy Train Set With Tracks - New Ray 08023. Type: Trains |
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Yemassee (Amtrak Station) $79.66 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The Yemassee Amtrak station is an Amtrak station in Yemassee, South Carolina. Located at 15 Wall Street (erroneously listed as 9 Main Street in the Amtrak timetable and at Amtrak.com), the station consists of a covered platform on the northwest side of the northeastsouthwest tracks, a small parking lot, and a building. The building is mostly boarded up, but it does have a small waiting room for Amtrak passengers. It also contains a freight depot. Both the station and the freight house were originally built by the Charleston and Western Carolina Railway and later run by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. Yemassee is served by the Palmetto and Silver Meteor trains of Amtraks Silver Service. Both trains pass through Yemassee, near the growing towns of Beaufort and Hilton Head, at roughly the same times of the day; the northbound Palmetto and southbound Silver Meteor do so in the morning, while the southbound Palmetto and northbound Silver Meteor come through in the evening. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Tennoe, Mariam T./ Henssonow, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 120 Publication Date: 2010/08/31 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.28 inches |
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Prairie Marksman, Amtrak $81.25 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The Prairie Marksman was a daily passenger train operated by Amtrak between Chicagos Union Station and East Peoria, Illinois. The route was an indirect successor to the Rock Islands Peoria Rocket. Prior to the creation of Amtrak Peoria was served by the Rock Islands Peoria Rocket. Then in serious financial distress, the Rock Island opted out of Amtrak in 1971: the company decided it was cheaper to keep running its remaining passenger trains than to join Amtrak. The Peoria Rocket and the Quad Cities Rocket continued running until December 31, 1978, providing one roundtrip each day between Chicagos LaSalle Street Station and both Peoria and Rock Island, Illinois via Joliet, Illinois. With the demise of the Rock Island Peorias nearest railroad connection was at Chillicothe, Illinois, 20 miles (32 km) to the north, where Amtraks Lone Star (ChicagoKansas CityHouston) stopped daily. The Lone Star, however, fell victim to budget cuts and was discontinued in October 1979. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Timpledon, Miriam T./ Marseken, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 124 Publication Date: 2010/08/06 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.29 inches |
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Amtrak Across America (Paperback) $48.09 Amtrak is an essential part of America`s transportation system, today for over 28 million passengers. From the legacy Streamliners of the pre-Amtrak era?Champions, Chiefs, Eagles, Rockets, Zephyrs?to today`s modern Acela Express and future plans for more high speed ?corridor trains,? this book covers all the lines from past to present. Through the use of evocative photos, postcards, memorabilia and other collateral, this book is a journey through the past 40 years of Amtrak across America and all the preceding rail lines that transformed the nation?the Downeaster, Adriondack, Ethan Allen Express, Vermonter, Capitol Limited, Cardinal and Hoosier, Empire Service, Keystone, Lake Shore Limited, Maple Leaf, Pennsylvanian, Auto Train, Carolinian and Piedmont, Crescent, Palmetto, Silver Meteor, Silver Star, Blue Water and Wolverine, Carl Sandburg and Illinois Zephyr, City of New Orleans, Hiawatha, Illini and Saluki, Lincoln Service, Missouri River Runner, Pere Marquette, Heartland Flyer, Texas Eagle, California Zephyr, Empire Builder, Southwest Chief, Sunset Limited, Cascades, Coast Starlight, Capitol Corridor, San Joaquins, and Pacific Surfliner. |
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Old Saybrook (Amtrak Station) $86.03 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Old Saybrook is a regional rail station located in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. It is served by both Amtrak regional rail and the Connecticut Department of Transportations Shore Line East commuter service. Located on the Northeast Corridor, the busiest railway in the United States, Old Saybrook station serves some of the rail services that pass through the station. Only a select few trains on Amtraks Northeast Regional train line stop at Old Saybrook. No highspeed Acela Express trains arrive at the station but some stop at the following southbound and northbound stations, New Haven and New London, respectively. However, all Shore Line East commuter rail trains stop at Old Saybrook; it serves as the eastern terminus for some trains. (New London is the eastern terminus of the line, with approximately half terminating there.) Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Tennoe, Mariam T./ Henssonow, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 104 Publication Date: 2011/02/28 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.02 x 0.25 inches |
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Northeast Regional (Amtrak) $66.91 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The Northeast Regional is a regional rail service operated by Amtrak in the Northeastern United States. In the past, it has also been known as the NortheastDirect, Acela Regional, and Regional. There is frequent daily allreserved service, operating every hour of every day. Trains generally operate between Boston, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C., with extra service between New York City and Washington and some extended service to Springfield, Massachusetts, and Newport News and Lynchburg, Virginia. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Timpledon, Miriam T./ Marseken, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 Publication Date: 2010/05/19 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.19 inches |
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Wallingford (Amtrak Station) $78.07 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Wallingford is a train station in the city of Wallingford, Connecticut served by Amtraks Northeast Regional, New HavenSpringfield Shuttle, and the Vermonter. The station is located adjacent to the town green, between Hall Avenue and Quinnipiac Avenue, near where both intersect with Colony Street (U.S. Route 5).The depot at Wallingford was built in 1871 by the Hartford New Haven Railroad on the Springfield Line, and was built in a manner similar to that of Windsor Station. The interior of the building closed as a station in 1994 and is now used for adult education and the New Haven Model Railroad Club but trains still stop there today. The line through Wallingford was doubled tracked until 1990 when the second track was removed. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Tennoe, Mariam T./ Henssonow, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 120 Publication Date: 2010/08/25 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.28 inches |
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Bachmann Williams BAC74355 N Budd Full Dome Passenger Amtrak $29.25 Bachmann Has Designed This Amtrak 85 FullDome Passenger Car to be used with your N Scale Electric Trains. Authenticly painted and decorated body shell. Couplers are mounted to the trucks. Each truck holds 6 blackened metal wheels. Interior is detailed in yellow with passenger seats. Twolevel passenger seating. Amtrak car number is 305. Sturdy plastic box with a clear fliptop lid gives good protection and view. One N Scale Amtrak 85 FullDome Passenger Car. Scale: N 1:160. Length: 61/4 (15.9cm). Width: 3/4 (1.9cm). Height: 11/4 (3.2cm). |
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Missouri Pacific Passenger Trains: The Postwar Years $24.78 Ideal for passenger train buffs, MoPac fans and modelers, this overview of Missouri Pacific passenger trains and service tells the complete story since the first streamlined trains to travel the line, to the arrival of Amtrak in 1971. Nicknamed the Route of the Eagles, it spanned from the Midwest all the way to Mexico and operated a diverse fleet of colorful passenger trains in the years between World War II and Amtrak. Photographs, car diagrams, drawings, maps, timetables and consists, and advertising material round out this colorful history. |
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Trains $13.28 Passenger trains and electric trains. Here come the trains. All aboard |
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Amtrak By Amtrak $24.4 Author: National Railroad Passenger Corporation (COR) Subtitle: An American Story Publication Date: 2011/06/07 Number of Pages: 143 Binding Type: Paperback Language: English Depth: 0.50 Width: 8.50 Height: 11.00 |
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Twilight of the Great Trains, Expanded Edition $35.72 In the years following World War II, a potent combination of new prosperity, a renewed love affair with the automobile, improved highways, and the availability of commercial air travel contributed to the dwindling number of rail travelers. By the 1960s, rail passenger service had become an endangered species in an unfriendly environment. Fred W. Frailey recounts the demise of the pre-Amtrak passenger train in Twilight of the Great Trains. Drawing upon a lifetime of experience as a reporter and editor, Frailey uncovers the reasons behind the disappearance of these great trains and explains how 11 railroad systems withstood or welcomed, fought or embraced the inevitable decline of their passenger services. Stimulating and informative, this book offers a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most challenging eras in American railroad history. |
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Outbound Trains: In the Era Before the Mergers $14.64 "From the early 1960s through the 1970s." Outbound Trains features distinguished photographer, writer and rail magazine editor Jim Boyd's best images, with emphasis on the colorful first-generation diesel railroads. A lively text and scores of incomparable photographs take the reader coast to coast with most major American railroads and provide a sampling of interesting short lines and restored steam or main-line steam. There are spectacular photographs of aging roundhouses, country stations, busy interlocking towers and the great stations of Chicago; pre-Amtrak passenger trains, from the "Twentieth Century Limited" and the "Midnight Special" to lowly locals, mail trains and branch-line doodlebugs; N&W Geeps and SDs in the West Virginia coalfields, the "California Zephyr" threading through the Feather River canyon, and slant-nose, stainless-steel-paneled Burlington E5s racing across the Illinois prairie; Pennsylvania GG1 electrics, Milwaukee Road boxcabs and Little Joes; and the historic steam of Southern Pacific Daylight and Union Pacific Challenger 3985, the world's largest operating steam locomotive. Outbound Trains is an absolute must for every railfan's bookshelf. |
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Trains! $4.99 Cute illustrations bring trains to life for little ones. |
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Rails Across Dixie: A History of Passenger Trains in the American South $61.49 Covering legendary and obscure intercity passenger trains in a dozen Southeastern states, this book details the golden age of train travel. The story begins with the inception of steam locomotives in 1830 in Charleston, South Carolina, continuing through the mid-1930s changeover to diesel and the debut of Amtrak in 1971 to the present. Throughout, the book explores the technological achievements, the romance and the economic impact of traveling on the tracks. Other topics include contemporary museums and excursion trains; the development of commuter rails, monorails, light rails, and other intracity transit trains; the social impact of train travel; and historical rail terminals and facilities. The book is supplemented with more than 160 images and 10 appendices. |
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Amtrak Cascades $86.03 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Amtrak Cascades is a passenger train route operated by Amtrak in partnership with the states of Washington and Oregon in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and the province of British Columbia in Canada. It is named after the Cascade mountain range that the route parallels. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 Publication Date: 2011/02/24 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.02 x 0.27 inches |
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Amtrak Blues $6.99 Track Listing: 1. Darktown Strutters' Ball, The, 2. Nobody Knows You When Your Down and Out, 3. I'm Having a Good Time, 4. Always, 5. My Handyman Ain't Handy No More, 6. Amtrak Blues, 7. Old Fashioned Love, 8. Sweet Georgia Brown, 9. Good Man Is Hard to Find, A, 10. I've Got a Mind to Ramble |
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Close View of Passing Amtrak Train $39.99 Todd Gipstein Close View of Passing Amtrak Train - Photographic Print |