Colfax station

Colfax station is an Amtrak train station in Colfax, California. It serves the California Zephyr line. It is unstaffed. The station was built in 1905 by Southern Pacific Railroad and was restored in the early 21st Century; in addition to a waiting room, the building also houses the Colfax Heritage Museum.[3] The platform is movable to accommodate Union Pacific rotary snowplows, which are liable to scrape a platform 8 inches above top of rail.[4]

For the light rail station in Colorado, see Colfax station (RTD).
Colfax, CA
The westbound California Zephyr at Colfax in 2019
Location99 Railroad Street at Church Street
Colfax, California
Coordinates39.0994°N 120.9531°W / 39.0994; -120.9531
Line(s)UP Roseville Subdivision[1]
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks2
Connections Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach
Other information
Station codeCOX
History
Opened1905
RebuiltEarly 2000s
Original companyCentral Pacific Railroad
Passengers
20177,035[2]  12.1% (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station
Roseville
toward Emeryville
 California Zephyr Truckee
toward Chicago
Former services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station
Auburn
toward San Jose
 Capitol Corridor
1998–2000
 Terminus
Colfax Passenger Station
NRHP reference No.98001605
Colfax Freight Station
NRHP reference No.99001564
Location

Between January 1, 1998, and February 13, 2000, a single round-trip of the Capitol Corridor terminated at Colfax. This service ended because of low ridership.

The station building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999 as Colfax Passenger Station, with the 1880-built freight depot listed separately as Colfax Freight Station.

References
  1. SMA Rail Consulting (April 2016). "California Passenger Rail Network Schematics" (PDF). California Department of Transportation. p. 2.
  2. "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2017, State of California" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2017. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  3. "Colfax, CA (COX)". Great American Stations. Amtrak.
  4. Glischinski, Steve (December 2010), "Where the Rotaries Roll On", Trains Magazine, 70 (12): 24, ISSN 0041-0934, When the rotaries move out of Roseville, workers have to pull up crossings, and remove the Amtrak station platforms at Rocklin and Colfax to accommodate the plows. The platforms were designed to be portable because of this.

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