Maricopa station
Maricopa | |||||||||||||||
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 Former California Zephyr dome car at the station | |||||||||||||||
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| Location | 19427 N. John Wayne Pkwy Maricopa, AZ 85239 United States | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°03′23″N 112°02′51″W / 33.056353°N 112.047372°W | ||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Amtrak and Pinal County | ||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Union Pacific Railroad | ||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||
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| Station code | MRC | ||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||
| Opened | 1996 | ||||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||||
| 2015 | 12,162[1]  4.5% | ||||||||||||||
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Maricopa is an Amtrak train station at 19427 North John Wayne Parkway in Maricopa, Arizona in Pinal County, Arizona, United States. Passenger rail service is provided thrice-weekly in each direction by the Sunset Limited and Texas Eagle. Maricopa was added as a stop after Amtrak was forced to withdraw from Union Station in Phoenix due to deteriorated track conditions on a secondary Union Pacific Railroad line which diverged from the mainline to serve Phoenix.[2]
On display is a restored Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad dome car, The Silver Horizon (car #375).[3] The dome car served as the station office, but proved unsuitable. It has since been replaced by the former Tucson, Arizona station building, a double-wide modular trailer coach train.
Due to the rescheduling of Amtrak service from the overnight hours to the morning rush hour in the eastbound direction, Arizona State Route 347 is located adjacent to the station. The train must make four separate stops in order to load and unload passengers due to the short length of the station platform. The city of Maricopa and Union Pacific Railroad have studied moving the station west onto city-owned property and building a siding for the train for a cost of $4.2 million, to be paid for by various state, regional, and Gila River Indian Community funds.[4][5]
References
- ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2015, State of Arizona" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2015. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
- ^ State of Arizona 2007 Railroad Inventory and Assessment: A final report to the Arizona Department of Transportation, page 91 (accessed December 12, 2008)
- ^ A short history of our Maricopa station. Amtrak's Texas Eagle (URL accessed September 17, 2006).
- ^ http://www.inmaricopa.com/Article/2012/05/02/gila-river-grants-request-amtrak-relocation-city-council
- ^ http://www.inmaricopa.com/Article/2012/06/05/amtrak-traffic-state-route-347-rail-siding-move-tracks-union-pacific
External links
Media related to Maricopa (Amtrak station) at Wikimedia Commons- Maricopa Amtrak station information
- Maricopa, AZ – Amtrak
- Maricopa, AZ – Station history at Great American Stations (Amtrak)
- Maricopa Amtrak Station (USA Rail Guide -- Train Web)
- Maricopa (MRC)--Great American Stations (Amtrak)
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