How to get there from here....

Greetings all!
I'm slated to start RDTC on Jan 30, and am finding Marshfield, WI quite a difficult place to get to. I'm starting this thread in hopes that others who have been there can help us newbies find our way around. I'm coming from Buffalo, NY and really need to leave the good vehicle at home for the Mrs. to use. It seems the Greydog is a pretty good solution but it can only get me as far as Stevens Point or Mosinee (about 30-35 miles away). A 30 mile cab ride seems to be as much as the Greydog from Buffalo and a rental car would run about $800+ for the 3 weeks so that's not an option. Is anyone out there more familiar with getting from these places to Marshfield?
Also, If I don't drive there, is the training center within walking distance of any stores or restaurants? Does Roehl offer a courtesy car at all for the students to use? Any insight would be helpful to all of us newbies.

 

Thanks Paoldschool! The train doesn't route through Colby, I think it was actually a bus connection, but the closest they go is Abbotsford which is right next to Colby. But the bus times no longer match up to the train times. They must have dropped a route. I called Radio cab and they said they don't go to Abbotsford but they do go to Tomah on Mon, Wed, Fri and Sundays for $17. I checked Amtrak and nothing matched up timewise, they were always missing the bus connection (or vice versa), but I found a round trip Buffalo, NY to Tomah, WI for $270 which gets to Tomah at 2:30 Sunday which times it really good. So it looks like $304 round trip to Marshfield door to door plus a couple of tips for the cabbie!

 

Also, PA, I did go down to NTTI and spoke with them, but the economics didn't fit. They wanted to run me through an 8 week $8000 program in order to get Fed Grant $ and student loans. I'm sure they're a fine outfit but it just didn't make sense.

 

Okay, a little clarification for anyone interested...The Hotel is actually 4 miles from the training center. There are plenty of stores and restaurants within walking distance of the hotel including a "festival" supermarket, Taco Bell, Perkins, McDonalds, and others. Google Earth is a wonderful thing....