East Glacier Park (Amtrak station)

East Glacier Park
Station statistics
Address 400 Hwy 49 North
East Glacier Park, MT 59434
Lines
  Empire Builder
Platforms 1 side platform
Tracks 2
Parking Yes; free
Baggage check Yes
Other information
Opened 1913
Accessible
Code GPK
Owned by BNSF Railway
Traffic
Passengers (2011) 11,950[1]  32%
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station
toward Seattle or Portland
 Empire Builder
toward Chicago

East Glacier Park is a seasonal station stop for the Amtrak Empire Builder in East Glacier Park, Montana. The station is served daily from April to October, and caters mostly to tourists visiting Glacier National Park.

The station, platform, and parking are owned by BNSF Railway.[2][3] This station operates during the summer only. The platform at East Glacier Park has been extended along the tracks and thus is long enough to provide access to the entire train with only a single "spotting" of the train. Passengers intending to board train cars stopped well away from the station itself must walk down the platform to their car and not expect the train to be pulled forward and "spotted" a second time (as would be the case with stations with short platforms).

The East Glacier Park station has a sign that reads "Glacier Park" (its historic former name), but its current actual name of "East Glacier Park" will be used by Amtrak personnel when making the arrival announcement aboard the train.

Of the twelve Montana stations served by Amtrak, East Glacier Park was the second busiest in FY10, boarding or detraining an average of about 100 passengers daily.[4]

Notes and references

  1. ^ "East Glacier Park, MT (GPK)". Great American Stations. http://www.greatamericanstations.com/Stations/GPK. Retrieved 18 November 2011. 
  2. ^ "Amtrak - Great American Stations". Amtrak. http://www.greatamericanstations.com/Stations/GPK/Station_view. Retrieved 2009-04-23. 
  3. ^ Grau, Kara; Bruns-Dubois, Melissa; Nickerson, Norma P. (December 2006). "The Economic Review of the Travel Industry in Montana" (PDF). Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research at the University of Montana. http://www.itrr.umt.edu/ecorev/Economicreview2006.pdf. Retrieved 2007-02-01. 
  4. ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2010, State of Montana" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2010. http://www.amtrak.com/pdf/factsheets/MONTANA10.pdf. Retrieved 2011-01-06. 

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