Sandusky station is an

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station in

Sandusky, Ohio Sandusky ( ) is a city in Erie County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. Situated on the southern shore of Lake Erie, Sandusky is located roughly midway between Toledo, Ohio, Toledo ( west) and Cleveland ( east). At the 2020 United Stat ...

. Located at 1200 North Depot Street, the station consists of an uncovered platform on the north side of the east–west tracks, a small parking lot, and two buildings. The former

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/baggage building is boarded up, while the main building has a small, remodeled waiting room for Amtrak passengers as well as offices for the Sandusky Transit System and North Central EMS. The station is served by the ''Floridian'' and ''Lake Shore Limited'' routes, both of which pass through Sandusky in the middle of the night. Because the station has only one platform, eastbound trains switch to the usual westbound tracks to pass the station.

History

The Sandusky station was originally built in 1892 by the

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. It was designed by architects

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and was also a work of A. Feick & Bros., and was listed on the

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in 1975. In the heyday of passenger train travel in the first six decades of the 20th century the station was a local stop, bypassed by most New York Central named trains on the Chicago-New York City circuit. Exceptions were the ''Iroquois'' and the ''Chicagoans eastbound trip. Additionally, the Cleveland-Detroit '' Cleveland Mercury'' made a stop at Sandusky. Passenger services ended in 1971, but were reinstated on July 29, 1979 when Amtrak added it as a stop on the ''

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''. On November 10, 2024, the ''Capitol Limited'' was merged with the as the ''Floridian''.

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