New Buffalo station
Amtrak rail station in New Buffalo, Michigan
New Buffalo station is a train station in New Buffalo, Michigan, served by Amtrak, the United States' passenger railroad system. The Blue Water (Chicago–Port Huron) stops once daily, and Wolverine (Chicago–Detroit/Pontiac) stops three times daily in each direction.
History
From August 5, 1984 to October 26, 2009, Amtrak's Pere Marquette (Chicago—Grand Rapids) stopped in New Buffalo at a station along the CSX Grand Rapids Subdivision. This station was located approximately seven blocks south of the current station, close to the New Buffalo Railroad Museum. When the current station opened along the Amtrak-owned Michigan Line, the Pere Marquette stopped serving New Buffalo, although the trains still pass through town along this alignment. Future plans envision a new connection east of the city to allow the Pere Marquette to be rerouted via the Michigan Line, enabling the service to stop at New Buffalo again and create eastbound travel options.
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This entry incorporates text from “New Buffalo station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.