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Colfax station

Coordinates: 39°05′58″N 120°57′11″W / 39.0994°N 120.9531°W / 39.0994; -120.9531
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Colfax, CA
The station building in 2008 after being renovated.
General information
Location99 Railroad Street at Church Street
Colfax, California
Coordinates39°05′58″N 120°57′11″W / 39.0994°N 120.9531°W / 39.0994; -120.9531
Line(s)
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks2
ConnectionsThruway Motorcoach
Construction
ParkingFree
Bicycle facilitiesTie-downs
Other information
Station codeCOX
History
Opened1905
RebuiltEarly-2000's
Passengers
20177,035[1]Increase 12.1% (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station
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  Former services  
Amtrak
Template:Amtrak linesTerminus

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.[2] The platform is movable to accommodate Union Pacific rotary snowplows, which are liable to scrape a platform 8 inches above top of rail.[3]

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.

In FY2012 Colfax was the 69th-busiest of Amtrak's 74 California stations, boarding or detraining an average of about 12 passengers daily.[4]

The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

Platforms and tracks

1  California Zephyr toward Emeryville (Roseville)
 California Zephyr toward Chicago (Truckee)
2  Bypass/Freight line No passenger service|}

References

  1. ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2017, State of California" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2017. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  2. ^ Great American Stations. Accessed 2 February 2013.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2012, State of California" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2012. Retrieved 2013-05-11. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)

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