Lake Charles station
Appearance
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Lake Charles, LA | |||||||||||||
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![]() Lake Charles station in August 2008 | |||||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||||
Location | 100 Ryan Street Lake Charles, Louisiana United States | ||||||||||||
Coordinates | 30°14′17.5″N 93°13′01.5″W / 30.238194°N 93.217083°W | ||||||||||||
Owned by | City of Lake Charles | ||||||||||||
Line(s) | Union Pacific Railroad | ||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||
Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||||
Connections | ![]() | ||||||||||||
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Parking | Yes | ||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||
Other information | |||||||||||||
Station code | Amtrak: LCH | ||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||
Opened | 1992 | ||||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||||
FY 2023 | 2,614[1] (Amtrak) | ||||||||||||
Services | |||||||||||||
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Lake Charles station is a train station in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States. It is served tri-weekly by Amtrak's Sunset Limited. It is located on 100 Ryan Street at the west end of South Railroad Avenue. Lake Charles station is a decorative and unstaffed waiting room that serves as a replacement for the original Lake Charles Station once located on South Railroad Avenue between Bilbo and Hodges Streets. The iron brackets supporting the station's roof were salvaged from the original Southern Pacific passenger station which served as the Amtrak station.
References
[edit]- ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2023: State of Louisiana" (PDF). Amtrak. March 2024. Retrieved June 27, 2024.
External links
[edit] Media related to Lake Charles station at Wikimedia Commons
- Lake Charles, LA – Amtrak
- Lake Charles, LA – Station history at Great American Stations (Amtrak)
- Lake Charles station – USA Rail Guide (TrainWeb)
Categories:
- Amtrak stations in Louisiana
- Buildings and structures in Lake Charles, Louisiana
- Transportation buildings and structures in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
- 1992 establishments in Louisiana
- Railway stations in the United States opened in 1992
- Southern United States railway station stubs
- Louisiana building and structure stubs
- Louisiana transportation stubs