Havre (Amtrak station)

Havre

Great Northern Railway locomotive #2584 and the sculpture, "U.S.—Canada Friendship"
Station statistics
Address 235 Main Street
Havre, MT 59501
Lines
  Empire Builder
Platforms 1 side platform, 1 island platform
Tracks 2
Parking Yes; free
Baggage check Yes
Other information
Opened 1907
Rebuilt 1953
Accessible
Code HAV
Owned by BNSF Railway
Traffic
Passengers (2011) 14,007[1]  13%
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station
toward Seattle or Portland
 Empire Builder
toward Chicago

Havre, Montana is a station, re-fueling, and service stop for the Amtrak Empire Builder in Havre, Montana. The station, platform, and parking are owned by BNSF Railway.[2][3]

On static display, next to the station, is Great Northern Railway steam locomotive #2584, a 4-8-4 S-2 "Northern" Class. Nearby is a sculpture representing "U.S. – Canada Friendship" and a statue of James J. Hill, the man for whom the Empire Builder is named and the developer of the Great Northern Railway.

Of the twelve Montana stations served by Amtrak, Havre was the fourth busiest in FY10, boarding or detraining an average of 44 passengers daily.[4]

Notes and references

  1. ^ "Havre, MT (HAV)". Great American Stations. http://www.greatamericanstations.com/Stations/HAV. Retrieved 18 November 2011. 
  2. ^ "Amtrak - Great American Stations". Amtrak. http://www.greatamericanstations.com/Stations/HAV/Station_view. Retrieved 2007-02-01. 
  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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