The Palm Springs Amtrak Station is one of the strangest stops on America’s passenger rail network, tucked deep in the arid Southern California desert. At first glance, it hardly looks like a train station at all. Unlike in America's most beautiful Amtrak Station , here, there’s no ticket counter, no waiting room, and no convenience store to grab a drink before a long ride. Instead, travelers find an exposed platform, a small parking lot, and miles of unforgiving sand stretching endlessly in every direction.

Despite its bare-bones setup and constant battle with the desert elements, this station still exists, and Amtrak continues to schedule trains to stop here. Its survival seems almost contradictory as it endures sandstorms, silence, scorching heat, and a complete lack of amenities. T

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