Las Vegas (Amtrak station)

Las Vegas

The remnants of the Hotel Castañeda and Las Vegas Amtrak Station in recent times.
Station statistics
Address Railroad Street and Lincoln Avenue
Las Vegas, NM 87701
Lines
  Southwest Chief
Platforms 1 side platform
Tracks 2
Other information
Opened 1899
Code LSV
Traffic
Passengers (2011) 4,952[1]  10%
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station
Southwest Chief
toward Chicago
    Former services    
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
Chapelle
 Main Line
Watrous
Main Line
Major stations

The Las Vegas Amtrak station is located at Railroad Street & Lincoln Avenue in Las Vegas, New Mexico. The station is near the Hotel Castañeda, a former hotel built by Fred Harvey for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.[2] The architects were Frederick Roehrig and A. Reinsch and it is the oldest Mission Revival Style building in the state of New Mexico, opening for business on January 1, 1899.[3] Though the hotel has been closed since 1948, the bar is still said to be operational as of 2002.[4]

Of the seven New Mexico stations served by Amtrak, Las Vegas was the fifth busiest in FY10, boarding or detraining an average of 12 passengers daily.[5]

Routes

References

  1. ^ "Las Vegas, NM (LSV)". Great American Stations. http://www.greatamericanstations.com/Stations/LSV. Retrieved 18 November 2011. 
  2. ^ La Castaneda Hotel - Las Vegas Citizens' Committee for Historic Preservation
  3. ^ Richard Melzer (2008). Fred Harvey Houses of the Southwest. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 37–40. http://books.google.com/books?id=jzR_PtaFNFoC&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq=la+castaneda+las+vegas,+new+mexico+architect&source=bl&ots=m3HE6qTrs7&sig=wtWTj-Hb7Iz_c7xv3q6YvKqGvNI&hl=en&ei=_vNaTtvUKtHKiALs28y2CQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CHAQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 2011-08-26. 
  4. ^ Las Vegas Amtrak Station (USA Rail Guide -- TrainWeb)
  5. ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2010, State of New Mexico" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2010. http://www.amtrak.com/pdf/factsheets/NEWMEXICO10.pdf. Retrieved 2011-01-06. 

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