Lake Charles station
Appearance
Lake Charles, LA | |||||||||||
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General information | |||||||||||
Location | 100 Ryan Street Lake Charles, LA 70601 United States | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 30°14′17.5″N 93°13′01.5″W / 30.238194°N 93.217083°W | ||||||||||
Owned by | City of Lake Charles | ||||||||||
Line(s) | Union Pacific Railroad | ||||||||||
Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||
Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||
Connections | Lake Charles Transit | ||||||||||
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Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
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Station code | Amtrak code: LCH | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 1992 | ||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||
2017 | 3,856[1] 5.12% | ||||||||||
Services | |||||||||||
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Lake Charles is a train station in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States. It is served tri-weekly by Amtrak's Sunset Limited. It is located on 100 Ryan Street at the west end of South Railroad Avenue. Lake Charles station is a decorative and unstaffed waiting room that serves as a replacement for the original Lake Charles Station once located on South Railroad Avenue between Bilbo and Hodges Streets. The iron brackets supporting the station's roof were salvaged from the original Southern Pacific passenger station which served as the Amtrak station.
References
- ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2017, State of Louisiana" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2017. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
External links
Media related to Lake Charles station at Wikimedia Commons
- Lake Charles, LA – Amtrak
- Lake Charles, LA – Station history at Great American Stations (Amtrak)
- Lake Charles Amtrak Station (USA Rail Guide -- Train Web)
- Lake Charles (LCH)--Great American Stations (Amtrak)