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Maricopa station has a very short platform (just over 110 feet (34 m) long) only slightly longer than each
Superliner car used by Amtrak. This arrangement forces train crews to make as many as four separate stops in order to load and unload passengers from various sections of the train. Because
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studied moving the station west onto a siding on city-owned property, but the cost was projected at $ 4.2 million, which the city was unwilling to pay. The project was replaced with a plan to build a new overpass that would carry SR 347 over the railroad tracks. The $ 55 million project was funded
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Maricopa station opened in 1996 after Amtrak was forced to withdraw from
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was moved to the site to be used as the station office.
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