Rocklin (Amtrak station)

Rocklin

Station statistics

Address

Rocklin Road and Railroad Avenue
Rocklin, CA 95677

Lines

Capitol Corridor

Platforms

Tracks

Other information

Code

RLN

Traffic

Passengers (2010)

34,263^[1] 12% (Amtrak)

Services

Preceding station		Amtrak		Following station
Roseville toward San Jose		Capitol Corridor		Auburn Terminus

The Rocklin Amtrak station is a train station in Rocklin, California, United States served by Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system. The platform is designed to be movable to accommodate Union Pacific's rotary snowplows, which may scrape a platform that is 8 inches above top of rail.^[2]

In FY2010 Rocklin was the 39th-busiest of Amtrak's 73 California stations, boarding or detraining an average of about 95 passengers daily.^[3]

References

^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2010, State of California" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2010. http://www.amtrak.com/pdf/factsheets/CALIFORNIA10.pdf. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
^ 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."
^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2010, State of California" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2010. http://www.amtrak.com/pdf/factsheets/CALIFORNIA10.pdf. Retrieved 2011-01-06.