Sandpoint (Amtrak station)

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Sandpoint
Station statistics
Address 450 Railroad Avenue
Sandpoint, ID 83864
Lines
Empire Builder
Baggage check No
Other information
Opened 1916
Accessible Handicapped/disabled access
Code SPT
Owned by BNSF Railway
Traffic
Passengers (2007) 5,908 ▲ 2.1%
Empire Builder[1]
Distance Station
KBFa
0 Chicago
BHF
658 mi (1,059 km) Fargo
HST
1,807 mi (2,908 km) Sandpoint
BHF
1,877 mi (3,021 km) Spokane
BS2rf BS2lf
KBFe STR
2,206 mi (3,550 km) Seattle
KBFe
2,257 mi (3,632 km) Portland

Sandpoint, Idaho is a station stop for the Amtrak Empire Builder in Sandpoint, Idaho, and the only stop the Builder makes in Idaho. In FY07, the station boarded or detrained an average of sixteen passengers daily.

The station, parking lot, platforms and track are owned by BNSF Railway.[2][3]

The station building is the oldest remaining active passenger depot of the former Northern Pacific Railway.[4] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and is known therein as the Sandpoint Burlington Northern Railway Station, or as the Northern Pacific Depot.[5]

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ Amtrak (2007-04-02). Empire Builder timetable (PDF). Retrieved on 2007-08-15.
  2. ^ Amtrak - Great American Stations. Amtrak. Retrieved on 2007-02-05.
  3. ^ Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2005, State of Idaho (PDF). Amtrak (October 2006). Retrieved on 2007-02-04.
  4. ^ Amtrak - Great American Stations. Amtrak. Retrieved on 2007-02-05.
  5. ^ National Register of Historic Places, Idaho - Bonner County. National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved on 2002-02-05.

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