Lamar station (Amtrak)
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Lamar, CO | |||||||||||||
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General information | |||||||||||||
Location | Main and Beach Streets Lamar, CO 81052 | ||||||||||||
Coordinates | 38°05′23″N 102°37′07″W / 38.0897°N 102.6185°W | ||||||||||||
Owned by | City of Lamar | ||||||||||||
Line(s) | BNSF Railway La Junta Subdivision | ||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||
Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||||
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Station code | LMR | ||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||
Opened | 1907 | ||||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||||
2016 | 1,879[1] 2.5% | ||||||||||||
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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Passenger Depot | |||||||||||||
Location | Lamar, Colorado | ||||||||||||
NRHP reference No. | 100004186 | ||||||||||||
Added to NRHP | July 19, 2019 |
The Lamar station is a train station in Lamar, Colorado served by Amtrak. It is served by Amtrak's Southwest Chief line. It was originally built in 1907 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, after a long-standing feud between the railroad, and the founder of the former town of Blackwell.[2] The current station is designed in a manner similar to that of Garden City station in Kansas, and also serves as the Lamar Visitor's Center. In 2019 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.[3]
See also
References
- ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2016, State of Colorado" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2017.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Lamar, Colorado; Great American Stations (Amtrak)
- ^ Reyes, Catherine (October 20, 2019). "Lamar's train depot now on National Register of Historic Places". The Denver Post.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lamar (Amtrak station).
- Lamar, CO – Amtrak
- Lamar, CO – Station history at Great American Stations (Amtrak)
- Lamar, Colorado; Great American Stations (Amtrak)
- Lamar Amtrak Station (USA Rail Guide -- TrainWeb)
- Colorado Welcome Center at Lamar (Colorado Tourism Office)
- Remembrances of D. K. Spencer (Santa Fe Online Historical Society)