Creston (Amtrak station)

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Creston, IA
Station statistics
Address Pine Ave. & Adams St.
Coordinates 41°03′25″N 94°21′41″W / 41.0570°N 94.3614°W / 41.0570; -94.3614Coordinates: 41°03′25″N 94°21′41″W / 41.0570°N 94.3614°W / 41.0570; -94.3614
Line(s)
  California Zephyr
Platforms 1 side platform, 1 island platform
Tracks 2
Parking free
Other information
Opened 1969
Station code CRN
Traffic
Passengers (2013)4,621[1] Increase 2%
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station
toward Emeryville
 California Zephyr
toward Chicago
    Former services    
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Cromwell
toward Denver
 Main Line
Afton
toward Chicago Union Station

The Creston Station is an unstaffed Amtrak train station in Creston, Iowa. Amtrak shares the building with the BNSF Railway, which uses the building as a yard office. The station is served by Amtrak's Chicago to Emeryville California Zephyr, with one daily train in each direction between the two cities.

The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad constructed the station in 1969, replacing a larger adjacent depot constructed in 1899.[2]:110 That depot still stands; in 2009 then-Governor Chet Culver proposed moving Amtrak back into the older facility.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2013, State of Iowa" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2013. Retrieved 3 December 2013. 
  2. ↑ Osmun, Diane R. (2011). Creston. Arcadia Publishing. 
  3. ↑ Ellyson, Tyler (September 24, 2009). "Culver talks trains". News Advertiser. Retrieved 2010-04-15. 

External links

Media related to Creston Burlington depot at Wikimedia Commons


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