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Table 4-5: Top 50 Amtrak Stations by Number of Boardings: 2004 and 2005

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Station Fiscal Year 2004 Fiscal Year 2005
Rank Number of boardings Rank Number of boardings
New York, NY 1 4,367,553 1 4,264,625
Washington, DC 2 1,888,459 2 1,880,852
Philadelphia, PA 3 1,844,887 3 1,868,800
Chicago, IL 4 1,179,955 4 1,226,962
Los Angeles, CA 6 644,845 5 690,068
Newark, NJ 5 684,050 6 605,527
Baltimore, MD 9 455,059 7 485,279
Boston, MA 8 488,912 8 476,614
Sacramento, CA 11 443,827 9 472,450
Trenton, NJ 7 499,399 10 439,730
San Diego, CA 12 398,720 11 432,248
Wilmington, DE 13 372,104 12 387,328
Albany-Rensselear, NY 14 323,160 13 366,946
Princeton Jct., NJ 10 449,608 14 362,846
New Haven, CT 15 309,268 15 327,178
Seattle, WA 16 299,466 16 307,290
Baltimore-Washington International Airport, MD 17 296,756 17 291,606
Irvine, CA 20 236,090 18 281,576
Emeryville, CA 19 237,766 19 254,039
Providence, RI 18 239,209 20 242,088
Portland, OR 21 235,479 21 240,918
Milwaukee, WI 22 221,624 22 238,850
Solana Beach, CA 23 195,482 23 206,230
Fullerton, CA 24 188,714 24 201,862
Bakersfield, CA 26 176,745 25 185,089
Metropark, NJ 25 178,972 26 180,400
Davis, CA 30 157,289 27 171,637
Harrisburg, PA 28 159,340 28 171,340
Lancaster, PA 31 152,431 29 166,827
Route 128, MA 27 172,075 30 160,640
Anaheim, CA 34 144,466 31 157,609
Boston Back Bay, MA 32 148,033 32 155,559
Oceanside, CA 29 158,772 33 155,251
Martinez, CA 35 144,087 34 150,222
Oakland, CA 36 139,714 35 143,147
Stamford, CT 33 145,360 36 141,723
Fresno, CA 38 124,362 37 128,284
San Juan Capistrano, CA 37 128,812 38 126,214
Richmond (Staples Mill), VA 40 117,441 39 125,707
Boston-North, MA 42 109,550 40 117,358
New Carrollton, MD 41 110,791 41 111,824
Santa Barbara, CA 39 122,911 42 111,339
Lorton, VA (Auto Train) 43 102,106 43 108,434
Richmond, CA 44 95,921 44 106,821
Sanford, FL (Auto Train) 45 95,377 45 96,264
St. Louis, MO 54 81,948 46 88,189
Santa Ana, CA 48 83,653 47 85,073
Rhinecliff, NY 46 86,466 48 84,492
Stockton (San Joaquin St.), CA 47 86,052 49 83,236
Hartford, CT 55 77,596 50 79,467
Top 50 total   19,801,960   19,944,058
United States, total   25,053,064   25,374,998
Top 50 as % of U.S. total   79%   79%

NOTE: Amtrak's fiscal year ends on September 30.

SOURCE: Amtrak, Office of Government Affairs, personal communication, Dec. 5, 2006.