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Train station is reminder of past
Puzzles, books and waiting-room style children’s model trains sit inside the train station at Rugby, waiting to be used by passengers of trains connecting Rugby with Chicago, Portland and Seattle. Built by the Great Northern Railway in 1907, the Rugby Station, part of what made Rugby grow into the town it is today, is now an unstaffed location, making it a “platform stop,” as Amtrak’s Chicago-based representative Marc Magliari called it. Magliari said the company doesn’t share information on where people go from particular locations, but a website, managed by Amtrak, ...