Cut Bank (Amtrak station)
Cut Bank | |||||||||||
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 Station viewed from the platform, facing east | |||||||||||
| Location |
101 BNSF Industrial Site Off Central Avenue/MT 213 Cut Bank, MT 59427 | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 48°38′18″N 112°19′54″W / 48.63839°N 112.33153°WCoordinates: 48°38′18″N 112°19′54″W / 48.63839°N 112.33153°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | BNSF Railway | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Parking | Yes; free | ||||||||||
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| Station code | CUT | ||||||||||
| Traffic | |||||||||||
| Passengers (2014) |
2,353[1]  19.4% | ||||||||||
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Cut Bank, Montana is a station stop for the Amtrak Empire Builder in Cut Bank, Montana and an important regional railway freight yard for BNSF Railway, which operates several grain collection elevators in the yard. The station site is owned by Amtrak,[2][3] The adjacent yard, trackage and signals are owned by BNSF Railway. The station is leas than a mile from Cut Bank Creek gorge called merely "Cut Bank" giving the county seat, station, and yard their eponymous names.
The city, in conjunction with Amtrak and current track owner BNSF Railway, recently repainted their historic train station into the traditional Great Northern Railway depot colors. The Great Northern was the original owner of the station and tracks.
Notes and references
- ↑ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2014, State of Montana" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2014. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
- ↑ "Amtrak - Great American Stations". Amtrak. Retrieved 2009-04-23.
- ↑ Grau, Kara; Bruns-Dubois, Melissa; Nickerson, Norma P. (December 2006). "The Economic Review of the Travel Industry in Montana" (PDF). Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research at the University of Montana. Retrieved 2007-02-01.