Okeechobee station (Amtrak)
Okeechobee, FL | |||||||||||
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| Location | 801 North Parrott Avenue  Okeechobee, FL 34972 | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 27°15′06″N 80°49′48″W / 27.25178°N 80.82991°W | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Station code | OKE | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 1924 | ||||||||||
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| 2012 | 3,933[1]  1.1% | ||||||||||
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Okeechobee station is a train station in Okeechobee, Florida, served by Amtrak. Although there is a depot onsite built in 1924 for the Seaboard Air Line Railway, Amtrak uses an adjacent shelter constructed in 2011. Built of red brick accented with cream-colored, rock-faced stonework, the shelter has a waiting room with large windows. The $1.5 million project was funded through Amtrak's Mobility First initiative under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.[2]
As of October 2015, the older station had been demolished.
References
- ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2012, State of Florida" (PDF). Amtrak. December 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
{{cite web}}: External link in|publisher= - ^ Great American Stations. Accessed March 15, 2013.
External links
Media related to Okeechobee (Amtrak station) at Wikimedia Commons
