Vancouver (Amtrak station)

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Amtrak station at Vancouver, WA
Vancouver
Station statistics
Address 1301 West 11th Street
Vancouver, WA 98660
Lines
Cascades
Coast Starlight
Empire Builder
Parking Free
Other information
Passengers (2006) 73,981 0.2%
Opened 1908
Rebuilt 1988 (partial)
Code VAN
Owned by City of Vancouver

Vancouver, Washington is the third busiest Amtrak station in Washington, USA. The station had 73,981 boardings during Amtrak's 2006 fiscal year, a decrease of 189 boardings from FY2005. It is a unique, two-sided station situated in a "wye", where passengers board the Empire Builder on the southeast side of the station while the Coast Starlight and Cascades are boarded on the northwest side of the station.[1][2]

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[edit] Current Amtrak Service

The Coast Starlight and Empire Builder offer daily service each way on their routes, whereas eight Amtrak Cascades stop in Vancouver with four northbound and four southbound departures daily.

[edit] Railfanning

The Amtrak depot is a popular area for Railfans to congregate and is a busy railroad junction in the Pacific Northwest. The depot sits within the wye between the BNSF Fallbridge and Seattle subdivisions and is within sight of the southern part of the Vancouver yard. There is free parking around the depot and it is rare that there isn't at least one railfan hanging around taking photographs or just watching trains.

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ Amtrak - Great American Stations. Amtrak. Retrieved on 2007-02-25.
  2. ^ Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2005, State of Washington (PDF). Amtrak (October 2006). Retrieved on 2007-02-25.

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