Colfax station

Colfax, CA
Colfax, CA
	The westbound California Zephyr at Colfax in 2019
General information
Location	99 Railroad Street at Church Street; Colfax, California
Coordinates	39°05′58″N 120°57′11″W / 39.0994°N 120.9531°W
Line(s)	UP Roseville Subdivision
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach
Other information
Station code	COX
History
Opened	1905
Rebuilt	Early 2000s
Original company	Central Pacific Railroad
Passengers
2017	7,035 12.1% (Amtrak)
Services
Former services
	Colfax Passenger Station
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
NRHP reference No.	98001605
	Colfax Freight Station
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
NRHP reference No.	99001564

Colfax station is an Amtrak train station in Colfax, California. It serves the California Zephyr line. It is unstaffed. The station was built in 1905 by Southern Pacific Railroad and was restored in the early 21st Century; in addition to a waiting room, the building also houses the Colfax Heritage Museum.^[3] The platform is movable to accommodate Union Pacific rotary snowplows, which are liable to scrape a platform 8 inches above top of rail.^[4]

Between January 1, 1998, and February 13, 2000, a single round-trip of the Capitol Corridor terminated at Colfax. This service ended because of low ridership.

The station building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999 as Colfax Passenger Station, with the 1880-built freight depot listed separately as Colfax Freight Station.

References

^ SMA Rail Consulting (April 2016). "California Passenger Rail Network Schematics" (PDF). California Department of Transportation. p. 2.
^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2017, State of California" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2017. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
^ "Colfax, CA (COX)". Great American Stations. Amtrak.
^ Glischinski, Steve (December 2010), "Where the Rotaries Roll On", Trains Magazine, 70 (12): 24, ISSN 0041-0934, When the rotaries move out of Roseville, workers have to pull up crossings, and remove the Amtrak station platforms at Rocklin and Colfax to accommodate the plows. The platforms were designed to be portable because of this.

External links

Media related to Colfax station at Wikimedia Commons

Colfax, CA – Amtrak
Colfax, CA – Station history at Great American Stations (Amtrak)
Amtrak Stations Database
Amtrak - Great American Stations: CA (COX)

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[schematics-1] SMA Rail Consulting (April 2016). "California Passenger Rail Network Schematics" (PDF). California Department of Transportation. p. 2.

[2] "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2017, State of California" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2017. Retrieved 17 December 2017.

[3] "Colfax, CA (COX)". Great American Stations. Amtrak.

[4] Glischinski, Steve (December 2010), "Where the Rotaries Roll On", Trains Magazine, 70 (12): 24, ISSN 0041-0934, When the rotaries move out of Roseville, workers have to pull up crossings, and remove the Amtrak station platforms at Rocklin and Colfax to accommodate the plows. The platforms were designed to be portable because of this.

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