Gallup (Amtrak station)

Gallup
Gallup Amtrak station
Location	201 East Highway 66 Gallup, NM 87301
Coordinates	35°31′45″N 108°44′26″W / 35.5293°N 108.7405°W / 35.5293; -108.7405Coordinates: 35°31′45″N 108°44′26″W / 35.5293°N 108.7405°W / 35.5293; -108.7405
Line(s)	Southwest Chief
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	3
Other information
Station code	GLP
History
Opened	1918
Traffic
Passengers (2013)	15,647[1]  4.9%
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station Winslow toward Los Angeles Southwest Chief Albuquerque toward Chicago   Former services   Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Manuelito toward Los Angeles Main Line Wingate toward Chicago Dearborn Station Winslow toward Los Angeles Main Line Major stations Albuquerque toward Chicago Dearborn Station

The Gallup Amtrak station is located at 201 East Highway 66 in Gallup, New Mexico. The station was built in 1918 as the El Navajo Hotel, one of a series of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway railroad station hotels built across the southwestern and central United States by Fred Harvey. The hotel was closed in 1957, but was later reopened as an unstaffed Amtrak station.

The city renovated the depot in 1996 to serve as the Gallup Cultural Center. In addition to a passenger waiting area, it houses the Gallup Visitor Center, Southwest Indian Foundation, Storyteller Museum and Gallery of the Masters and some retail shops.^[2]

The station is unique in that a fence guards the platform from the rest of the station. This is to prevent people getting on the tracks of the triple tracked, high speed main line.

Routes

• Southwest Chief

References

External links

• Amtrak – Stations – Gallup, NM
• Gallup Amtrak Station (USA Rail Guide -- Train Web)
• Gallup, NM (GLP) (Amtrak's Great American Stations)