DATABASE NAME

     AMTRAK:  Amtrak passenger stations in the United States

DATABASE DESCRIPTION

     A geographic database of Amtrak terminal facilities in the
     United States.

ORIGINATING AGENCY

     Federal Railroad Administration

AGENCY RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING DATA

     Bureau of Transportation Statistics

CONTACT

     National Transportation Atlas Databases
     Bureau of Transportation Statistics
     U.S. Department of Transportation
     Washington, DC  20590
     (202) 366-DATA
     Internet:  info@bts.gov

SOURCE

     Data were merged from two sources:

     "Amtrak Timetables" for station identification and
     attributes (mid 1994)

     1:2,000,000 USGS Digital Line Graphs for location and rail
     feature attributes.

ACCURACY

     1,200 m (0.75 mi) root-mean square positional accuracy

TYPE OF GIS DATABASE

     Point database with nodes

FILES/SIZE/NUMBER OF RECORDS

     One ASCII file

     1)   amtrak.pnt     node file contains point locations and
                         attributes

     Approximate size of file:     66,000 bytes
     Approximate number of nodes:  500

FILE STRUCTURE

     The file is ASCII-comma delimited.  Character fields are
     enclosed in quotation marks.

     The Node File

   FIELD  ITEM                TYPE      REMARKS

     1    Node ID             Num       Unique identification
                                        number
     2    Longitude           Float     Longitude of station
                                        (decimal degrees with
                                        explicit decimal)
     3    Latitude            Float     Latitude of station
                                        (decimal degrees with
                                        explicit decimal)
     4    City                Char      City name
     5    State               Char      State postal abbreviation
     6    RR1                 Char      |>
     7    RR2                 Char      | Reporting marks of 
     8    RR3                 Char      | railroads operating 
     9    RR4                 Char      | trains at that station
     10   RR5                 Char      |>
     11   Ticket Office       Char      Station includes ticket
                                        office
                                        Y    Yes
     12   HP Access           Char      Station has HP access
                                        Y    Yes
     13   Customs             Char      Station has customs
                                        office
                                        Y    Yes
     14   Thruway Point       Char      Station is a through way
                                        location
                                        Y    Yes
     15   Amtrak Exp          Char      Station includes Amtrak
                                        Express
                                        Y    Yes
     16   Great Vac           Char      Station includes Great
                                        Vacations
                                        Y    Yes
     17   Self Ticketing      Char      Station has self
                                        ticketing
                                        Y    Yes
     18   Checked bags        Char      Station has bag checking
                                        Y    Yes
     19   SPLC                Char      SPLC code of location
     20   Node                Char      Node number in RAIL_2M
                                        network
     21   Amtrak Code         Char      Amtrak station code
     22   Filler              Num       Future use.  Always 0.

DISCUSSION

     No additional discussion.