Vancouver (Amtrak station)

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This article is about the Amtrak station in Vancouver, Washington. For the Amtrak station in Vancouver, British Columbia, see Pacific Central Station.

Vancouver

Amtrak station at Vancouver, WA

Station statistics

Address

1301 West 11th Street
Vancouver, WA 98660

Lines

Cascades

Coast Starlight

Empire Builder

Parking

Free

Other information

Opened

1908

Rebuilt

1988 (partial)

Code

VAN

Owned by

City of Vancouver

Traffic

Passengers (FY2007)

84,245 ▲ 14% (Amtrak)

Services

Preceding station	Amtrak	Following station
Kelso toward Seattle	Coast Starlight	Portland toward Los Angeles
Kelso toward Vancouver, B.C.	Cascades	Portland toward Eugene
Portland Terminus	Empire Builder	Bingen-White Salmon toward Chicago

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]

1 Current Amtrak Service
2 Railfanning
3 Notes and references
4 External links

[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. In addition to the Amtrak passenger trains, there are also many freight trains operated by BNSF Railway, Union Pacific Railroad and Portland & Western Railroad. BNSF and Union Pacific trains often include locomotives from other railroads from through the U.S., Canada and Mexico.