Track Records
Rank of Union Station among Amtrak’s busiest 580 stations: 5
* Number of Amtrak trains serving Union Station: 28
* Number of Amtrak passengers last year who began or ended trips at Union Station: 1,012,000
* Cost of building Union Station in 1939: $13 million
* Best-selling magazine at Union Station’s Eastern Lobby newsstand: Vanity Fair
* Best-selling candy: M&M;’s
* Metrolink’s first run: Oct. 26, 1992
* Average number of daily Metrolink passengers: 25,200
* Percentage of Metrolink riders who formerly drove alone: 61
* Time added to average Los Angeles rush hour if all Metrolink riders instead drove alone:30 minutes
* Average Metrolink train speed: 45 mph
* Potential maximum speed: 175 mph
* Number of fatalities on Metrolink tracks since 1992: 38
* Number this year: 5
* Number of entries in the 1996 Metrolink commuters’ “Crafts in Motion” contest: 100
* Winning entry: Afghan knit by commuter Mark Feldstein while on the Pomona-to-L.A. route.
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