Huntingdon station is an

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railway station located at 4th and Allegheny Streets in

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, approximately 95 miles northwest of

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and 30 miles east of

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. 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

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The station was originally built by the

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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, 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. Efforts to save the former H&BTM station failed when it was demolished in 2001.Existing Railroad Stations in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania
/ref> 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 ''

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''), an extended version of the ''Pennsylvanian'' that terminated in

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. 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

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-like, but structurally sound building. There is no ticket office at this station. Though most of the ''Pennsylvanian'' route between Harrisburg and

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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.

References

External links

Huntingdon Amtrak Station (USA RailGuide -- TrainWeb)
Amtrak stations in Pennsylvania Stations on the Pittsburgh Line Transportation buildings and structures in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania Huntingdon, Pennsylvania {{Pennsylvania-railstation-stub