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General information | |||||||||||||||
Location | 350 Hoefgen Street San Antonio, TX 78205 | ||||||||||||||
Owned by | VIA Metropolitan Transit | ||||||||||||||
Line(s) | |||||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 side platform, 1 island platform | ||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||
Connections | Thruway Motorcoach | ||||||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||||||
Parking | Yes | ||||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | Yes | ||||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||
Other information | |||||||||||||||
Station code | SAS | ||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||
Opened | 1998 | ||||||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||||||
2014 | 62,002[1] 9.2% | ||||||||||||||
Services | |||||||||||||||
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Southern Pacific Railroad Passenger Station | |||||||||||||||
Location | San Antonio, Texas | ||||||||||||||
Built | 1902 | ||||||||||||||
Architect | Daniel J. Patterson | ||||||||||||||
Architectural style | Spanish Mission | ||||||||||||||
NRHP reference No. | 75001955 | ||||||||||||||
Added to NRHP | May 29, 1975 |
San Antonio Station serves as the Amtrak railroad station located on the eastern portion of Downtown San Antonio, in San Antonio, Texas.
Service
San Antonio Station serves two Amtrak lines; the Sunset Limited and the Texas Eagle. The two lines are actually part of the same train from Los Angeles, California, but splits at this station with the Sunset Limited continuing onto New Orleans, Louisiana and the Texas Eagle to Chicago, Illinois.
San Antonio Station provides an Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach route serving Harlingen, Brownsville, and McAllen, Texas.
History
Sunset Station
Amtrak previously utilized the historic Southern Pacific Railroad Station, that was also known as the Sunset Station. It was designed by SP's architect Daniel J. Patterson in the Spanish Mission Revival style, and built in 1902 by the SP. The train station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
Amtrak moved operations in 1998 to a smaller depot that was built adjacent to the older Sunset Station. Under its owner, VIA Metropolitan Transit, the historic Sunset Station underwent an extensive restoration and now serves as an entertainment complex. The station also neighbors the Alamodome. There is even a preserved 2-8-2 Baldwin "Mikado" steam locomotive that had belonged to the Southern Pacific railroad, was donated to the City of San Antonio at the end of its service life in 1956, and placed on static display at nearby Maverick Park for many years before being relocated to the station. Another "Mikado", donated simultaneously to the City of Austin, is operated on excursion trains for live steam enthusiasts by the Austin Steam Train Association.
References
- ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2014, State of Texas" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2014. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
External links
- San Antonio, TX – Amtrak
- San Antonio, TX – Station history at Great American Stations (Amtrak)
- Texaseagle.com: San Antonio Amtrak station for "Texas Eagle" line information
- Profile of San Antonio Station
- Official Sunset Station complex webpage
- Austin Steam Train Association
- Train Web, USA Rail Guide: San Antonio Amtrak Station & Sunset Depot
- San Antonio (SAS) (Amtrak's Great American Stations)
- Amtrak stations in Texas
- Buildings and structures in San Antonio, Texas
- Southern Pacific Railroad stations
- Transportation in San Antonio, Texas
- Railway stations opened in 1902
- National Register of Historic Places in Bexar County, Texas
- Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas
- Mission Revival architecture in Texas
- Spanish Colonial Revival architecture in Texas
- Texas railway station stubs
- Texas Registered Historic Place stubs