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Maricopa station has a very short platform (just over 110 feet (34 m) long) only slightly longer than each
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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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due to deteriorated track conditions on the secondary
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Maricopa Amtrak Station (USA Rail Guide – Train Web)
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587:(Press release). April 28, 2017. Archived from
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759:Maricopa, AZ – Amtrak
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