Maricopa (Amtrak station)
| Maricopa | |||||||||||||||
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 The former California Zephyr dome car which served as the station building until 2005 |
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| Address | 19427 John Wayne Parkway Maricopa, AZ 85239 |
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| Coordinates | 33°03′23″N 112°02′51″W / 33.056353°N 112.047372°WCoordinates: 33°03′23″N 112°02′51″W / 33.056353°N 112.047372°W | ||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||
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| Code | MRC | ||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2011) | 9,819[1]  12% |
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The Maricopa (Amtrak station) is located at 19427 N. John Wayne Parkway in Maricopa, Arizona which is in Pinal County, Arizona. Passenger rail service is provided thrice-weekly in each direction by the Sunset Limited. Maricopa was added as a stop for the Sunset Limited after Amtrak was forced to withdraw service from Phoenix due to deteriorated track conditions on a secondary Union Pacific Railroad track which diverged from the mainline to serve Phoenix.[2]
On display is a restored Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad dome car, The Silver Horizon (car #375).[3] The dome car, at one time in use as the station office, proved unsuitable and has been replaced by the former Tucson, Arizona station building, a double-wide modular trailer coach that was rolled on to the site after the original historic Tucson Union Station structure restoration was completed in 2005.
[edit] References
- ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2011, State of Arizona" (PDF). Amtrak. December 2011. http://www.amtrak.com/pdf/factsheets/ARIZONA11.pdf. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
- ^ State of Arizona 2007 Railroad Inventory and Assessment: A final report to the Arizona Department of Transportation, page 91 (accessed December 12, 2008)
- ^ A short history of our Maricopa station. Amtrak's Texas Eagle (URL accessed September 17, 2006).
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