Old Orchard Beach (Amtrak Station)
Old Orchard Beach is a train station in Old Orchard Beach, Maine served by Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system. It features a covered platform, and is served by Amtrak's Downeaster service from April to October.
On average, 78 passengers boarded or detrained daily at Old Orchard Beach in FY10, making it the fourth-busiest stop in Maine.
The station is located next to the Pan Am Railways mainline, formerly the Western Route mainline of the Boston & Maine Railroad.
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Famous quotes containing the words orchard and/or beach:
“Some spring the white man came, built him a house, and made a clearing here, letting in the sun, dried up a farm, piled up the old gray stones in fences, cut down the pines around his dwelling, planted orchard seeds brought from the old country, and persuaded the civil apple-tree to blossom next to the wild pine and the juniper, shedding its perfume in the wilderness. Their old stocks still remain.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“They will tell you tough stories of sharks all over the Cape, which I do not presume to doubt utterly,—how they will sometimes upset a boat, or tear it in pieces, to get at the man in it. I can easily believe in the undertow, but I have no doubt that one shark in a dozen years is enough to keep up the reputation of a beach a hundred miles long.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)