Needles station
Needles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Original station and hotel with the small BNSF Railway facility, which is now used by Amtrak, on the far left | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | 900 Front Street Needles, CA 92363 United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°50′24″N 114°36′16″W / 34.84000°N 114.60444°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | BNSF Railway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | BNSF Railway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side + 1 island platform | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | NDL | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1908 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2015 | 8,656[1]  3.1% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Needles is an Amtrak train station in Needles, California, United States. The station consists of a platform adjacent to a small waiting area located at a BNSF Railway yard.[2]
El Garces Hotel
The Needles station is near the historic El Garces Hotel,[3] built by the Santa Fe Railroad in 1908 for the Fred Harvey Company.[2] It is located near the original station, which closed in 1958 and underwent extensive restoration.[2] The name El Garces was chosen to honor Father Francisco Garces, a missionary who arrived in the area in 1776.[4]
El Garces reopened in 2014 as an intermodal transportation facility, but without the proposed on-site Needles Chamber of Commerce office, and without the original hotel and restaurant.[5][6]
Platforms and tracks
| 1-3 | ■ Southwest Chief | toward Los Angeles (Barstow) |
| ■ Southwest Chief | toward Chicago (Kingman) |
References
- ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2015, State of California" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
- ^ a b c "Needles, CA (NDL)". Great American Stations (Amtrak). Retrieved 22 October 2010.
- ^ El Garces Hotel (Official Website) Archived March 27, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Needles - Gateway To The Colorado River". Legends of America. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
- ^ http://www.thedesertstar.com/articles/2014/02/05/news/local/news993.txt[dead link]
- ^ Warnick, Ron (February 15, 2014). "El Garces may reopen as soon as March as a depot". Route 66 News. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
External links
- Needles, CA – Amtrak
- Needles, CA – Station history at Great American Stations (Amtrak)
- Needles Amtrak Station (USA Rail Guide -- Train Web)
- Needles (NDL)--Great American Stations (Amtrak)
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