Minot (Amtrak station)

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Minot

The station building at Minot after the 2008 restoration

Station statistics

Address

400 1st Avenue S.W.
Minot, ND 58701

Coordinates

48°14′10″N 101°17′55″W / 48.2361°N 101.2987°WCoordinates: 48°14′10″N 101°17′55″W / 48.2361°N 101.2987°W

Line(s)

Empire Builder

Platforms

1 side platform

Tracks

Parking

Yes; free

Other information

Opened

1910

Rebuilt

1975

Accessible

Station code

MOT

Owned by

BNSF Railway

Traffic

Passengers (2013)

41,615^[1]

12%

Services

Baggage check

Preceding station		Amtrak		Following station
Stanley toward Seattle or Portland, OR		Empire Builder		Rugby toward Chicago

The Minot Amtrak station is a train station in Minot, North Dakota served by Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system. The station is located at the site of the former Great Northern Railway station, adjacent to the Minot Public Library, and close to Minot's City Hall and Downtown Minot.

Minot is a service stop for Amtrak's daily Empire Builder, which also serves six other cities in North Dakota. This is the only scheduled service stop between Minneapolis, Minnesota and Havre, Montana. The Minot station features the most boardings and detrainings of any Amtrak station in the state.

Amtrak Empire Builder at Minot, 1991

The station was built in 1905 by the Great Northern Railway. It originally featured a brick exterior and a gabled roof. In 1975, the station was modernized; a stucco exterior and a flat roofline drastically altered the appearance of the depot. According to Great American Stations, the Amtrak Depot Restoration Committee used federal, state, and city funds to renovate the station in recent years. In 2008, the brick exterior and gabled roof were restored, while the renovation of the interior was completed in Fall 2010. However, flooding in the summer of 2011 damaged the interior of the main waiting room, which was then closed for repairs. A small temporary waiting room was opened in early Nov 2011 for Empire Builder passengers to use until the main waiting room can be repaired.

The platform, tracks, and station building are all owned by BNSF Railway.

Notes and references

↑ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2013, State of North Dakota" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2013. Retrieved 3 December 2013.

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