Colfax station

Colfax
The station building in 2008 after being renovated.
Location	99 Railroad Street at Church Street Colfax, California
Coordinates	39°05′58″N 120°57′11″W / 39.0994°N 120.9531°WCoordinates: 39°05′58″N 120°57′11″W / 39.0994°N 120.9531°W
Line(s)	California Zephyr
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Thruway Motorcoach
Construction
Parking	Free
Bicycle facilities	Tie-downs
Other information
Station code	COX
History
Opened	1905
Rebuilt	Early-2000's
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	4,631[1]  3.7% (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station Roseville toward Emeryville California Zephyr Truckee toward Chicago
Location
Location within California

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.^[2] The platform is movable to accommodate Union Pacific rotary snowplows, which are liable to scrape a platform 8 inches above top of rail.^[3]

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

In FY2012 Colfax was the 69th-busiest of Amtrak's 74 California stations, boarding or detraining an average of about 12 passengers daily.^[4]

Platforms and tracks

1	■ California Zephyr	toward Emeryville (Roseville)
	■ California Zephyr	toward Chicago (Truckee)
2	■ Bypass/Freight line	No passenger service

References

1. "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2015, State of California" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
2. Great American Stations. Accessed 2 February 2013.
3. 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.
4. "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2012, State of California" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2012. Retrieved 2013-05-11. External link in |publisher= (help)

External links

• Amtrak – Stations – Colfax, CA
• Amtrak Stations Database
• Amtrak California
• Colfax (COX)--Great American Stations (Amtrak)