Colfax (Amtrak station)

Colfax, CA
Station statistics
Address 99 Railroad Street at Church Street
Colfax, California
Lines
  California Zephyr
Connections Thruway Motorcoach
Platforms 1 side platform
Tracks 2
Parking Free
Bicycle facilities Tie-downs
Other information
Opened 1905
Rebuilt Early-2000's
Code COX
Traffic
Passengers (FY2010) 4,322[1]  14% (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station
toward Emeryville
 California Zephyr
toward Chicago
Location
Location within California

Amtrak's Colfax Station is in Colfax, California. It is unstaffed. The station was built in 1905 by Southern Pacific Railroad and was restored in the early 21st Century. The platforms are movable to accommodate Union Pacific rotary snowplows, which are liable to scrape a platform 8 inches above top of rail.[2]

In FY2010 Colfax was the 69th-busiest of Amtrak's 73 California stations, boarding or detraining an average of about 12 passengers daily.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2010, State of California" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2010. http://www.amtrak.com/pdf/factsheets/CALIFORNIA10.pdf. Retrieved 2011-01-06. 
  2. ^ Glischinski, Steve (December 2010), "Where the Rotaries Roll On", Trains Magazine 70 (12): 24, ISSN 0041-1934, "When the rotaries move out of Roseville, workers have to pull up crossings, and remove the Amtrak station platforms at Rocklin and Colfax to accommodate the plows. The platforms were designed to be portable because of this." 
  3. ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2010, State of California" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2010. http://www.amtrak.com/pdf/factsheets/CALIFORNIA10.pdf. Retrieved 2011-01-06. 

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