Las Vegas (Amtrak station)
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This article is about the railroad station in Las Vegas, New Mexico. For the Las Vegas, Nevada station, see Las Vegas Union Pacific Station.
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 The remnants of the Hotel Castañeda and Las Vegas Amtrak Station in recent times. |
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| Address | Railroad Street and Lincoln Avenue Las Vegas, NM 87701 |
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| Coordinates | 35°35′37″N 105°12′45″W / 35.5935°N 105.2126°WCoordinates: 35°35′37″N 105°12′45″W / 35.5935°N 105.2126°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1899 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Code | LSV | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2011) | 4,952[1]  10% |
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The Las Vegas Amtrak station is located at Railroad Street & Lincoln Avenue in Las Vegas, New Mexico. The station is near the Hotel Castañeda, a former hotel built by Fred Harvey for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.[2] The architects were Frederick Roehrig and A. Reinsch and it is the oldest Mission Revival Style building in the state of New Mexico, opening for business on January 1, 1899.[3] Though the hotel has been closed since 1948, the bar is still said to be operational as of 2002.[4]
Of the seven New Mexico stations served by Amtrak, Las Vegas was the fifth busiest in FY10, boarding or detraining an average of 12 passengers daily.[5]
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- ^ "Las Vegas, NM (LSV)". Great American Stations. http://www.greatamericanstations.com/Stations/LSV. Retrieved 18 November 2011.
- ^ La Castaneda Hotel - Las Vegas Citizens' Committee for Historic Preservation
- ^ Richard Melzer (2008). Fred Harvey Houses of the Southwest. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 37–40. http://books.google.com/books?id=jzR_PtaFNFoC&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq=la+castaneda+las+vegas,+new+mexico+architect&source=bl&ots=m3HE6qTrs7&sig=wtWTj-Hb7Iz_c7xv3q6YvKqGvNI&hl=en&ei=_vNaTtvUKtHKiALs28y2CQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CHAQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 2011-08-26.
- ^ Las Vegas Amtrak Station (USA Rail Guide -- TrainWeb)
- ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2010, State of New Mexico" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2010. http://www.amtrak.com/pdf/factsheets/NEWMEXICO10.pdf. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
