Passenger Trains > Shortest geographic distance to travel on an Amtrak train

I wonder what is the shortest geographic distance for which you can buy a ticket and travel on Amtrak?  That is, what is the shortest
distrance between stations currently served by an Amtrak train or trains?

Some short distance that come to mind are the following:
Philadelphia 30th Street to North Philadelphia
New York Penn Station to Newark Penn Station
Boston South Station to Boston Back Bay Station
Buffalo Depew Station to Buffalo Exchange Street Station
Niagra Falls Ontario to Niagra Falls New York
Dowington to Coatsville in Pennsylvania
Coatesville to Parkesburg in Pennsylvania
Emeryville to Berkeley in California
Vancouver Washington to Portland Oregon
Washington, DC to Alexandria Virginia

Am I missing any other very short distrances between current Amrak stations. They once stopped the
Michigan Executive train in both Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti but that service has been discontinued.
 

Raleigh, NC(RGH) to Cary, NC (CYN) 8.3 Miles

Best regards,
Cliff
 

Suisun to Fairfield CA
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Reno to Sparks NV, at one time- but Sparks is no longer a stop.

Provo, UT - Salt Lake City, UT comes to mind. While the distance between the stations is 45 miles, a commuter train (the FrontRunner) uses parallel trackage. When I lived in Utah, I always thought it would be amusing to take Amtrak from Provo to Salt Lake to get some "rare mileage" on those UP tracks.

Winter Park, FL to Orlando, FL?

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5 miles

Oakland to Emeryville, or Emeryville to Berkeley on the Capital Corridor

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Newark Penn Station to Newark Liberty International Airport
Wilmington DE to Newark DE

In special season, Syracuse NY/NY State Fair

unfortunately, Amtrak will not sell you a ticket from Lakeland FL to Lakeland FL, despite there being two trains a day that make that circuit the limitations on board/detrain only make it impossible. 

Washington, DC to New Carrollton, MD?

Oakland to Emeryville is around 3 miles
San Diego Santa Fe St to Old Town is around 3.5 miles (also covered by light rail...)

--j

Coast Starlight Burbank to Van Nuys. 5 miles. Oakland to Emeryville is also 5 miles.



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Portland, Oregon to Vancouver, WA, about 10 miles.  The Coast Starlight, Empire Builder, and several Amtrak Cascade Service trains cover this.

Stan Praisewater

Anaheim Station to Santa Ana station, 4.45 miles.

I do not believe you buy Amtrak ticket Boston to Back Bay!

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Marty Harrison
Knob Noster, MO

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> I do not believe you buy Amtrak ticket Boston to Back Bay!

About 2 years ago, I saw a You Tube of a guy taking a ride after buying a sleeper ticket on trains 65 from South Station to Back Bay. He was accommodated, but the crew thought he was nuts. 



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Richmond to Emeryville, CA is how far?  The Suisun to Fairfield stretch didn't come to mind because the Fairfield station was built after I moved away.  Old Town San Diego was funny because some of the Surfliners stopped there at the time, but the one I rode that morning didn't, so I had to take the trolley back.  Not that I was complaining! :)

Nathan

According to the Altamont Press timetable I have, Emeryville to Berkeley is 1.7 miles. (MP 4.5 to MP 6.2 on the Martinez Sub) It's a short haul that gets 4 minutes between stations on Amtrak's Capitol Corridor timetable.

Metropark to New Brunswick - 7 miles, 7 minutes - $39 in coach!

This question is pretty ambiguous as it can refer to corridor trains that should stop frequently and LD trains that dont need to be commuter transportation. When traveling on the Coast Starlight i noticed both northbound and southbound trains had a lot of people using sleepers between LA and Santa Barbara. Being a short distance the price isn't to bad vs coach, but what it does is run up sleeper availability for people going long distance and it makes them pay a high premium for thier long distance travel when they could be on the Surfliner.

I had to wait several days for an opening to go north and 4 times the price to go north than the trip south. The days the train was sold out had sleeper space north of Santa Barbara but 100% full out of LA.