| Vancouver Amtrak station |
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| Address | 1301 West 11th Street Vancouver, WA |
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| Platforms | 2 side platforms, 2 island platforms | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Parking | Free | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1908 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1988 (partial); 2008 (complete) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Code | VAN | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | City of Vancouver | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2010) | 100,979[1] 1.9% (Amtrak) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Vancouver, Washington is the third busiest Amtrak station in Washington, USA. It is a unique, two-sided station situated in a "wye", where passengers board the Empire Builder on the southeast side of the station while the Coast Starlight and Cascades are boarded on the northwest side of the station.[2] The station building is now open after extensive interior renovations.
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The Coast Starlight and Empire Builder offer daily service each way on their routes, whereas eight Amtrak Cascades stop in Vancouver with four northbound and four southbound departures daily. Of the eighteen Washington stations served by Amtrak, Vancouver was the third busiest in FY10, boarding or detraining an average of 280 passengers daily.[3]
The Amtrak depot is a popular area for railfans to congregate and is a busy railroad junction in the Pacific Northwest. The depot sits within the wye between the BNSF Fallbridge and Seattle subdivisions and is within sight of the southern part of the Vancouver yard. There is free parking around the depot and it is rare that there isn't at least one railfan hanging around taking photographs or just watching trains. In addition to the Amtrak passenger trains, there are also many freight trains operated by BNSF Railway, Union Pacific Railroad and Portland & Western Railroad. BNSF and Union Pacific trains often include locomotives from other railroads of the U.S., Canada and Mexico.