Creston station

Creston
Location Pine Ave. & Adams St.
Coordinates 41°03′25″N 94°21′41″W / 41.0570°N 94.3614°W / 41.0570; -94.3614Coordinates: 41°03′25″N 94°21′41″W / 41.0570°N 94.3614°W / 41.0570; -94.3614
Owned by BNSF Railway
Line(s)
Platforms 1 side platform, 1 island platform
Tracks 2
Construction
Parking free
Other information
Station code CRN
History
Opened 1969
Traffic
Passengers (2013) 4,621[1]Increase 2%
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station
toward Emeryville
California Zephyr
toward Chicago
  Former services  
Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad
Cromwell
toward Denver
Main Line
Afton

Creston is an unstaffed Amtrak intercity train station in Creston, Iowa. Amtrak shares the building with the BNSF Railway, which uses the building as a yard office. The station is served by the California Zephyr. The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad constructed the station in 1969.

The current station replaced a larger adjacent depot constructed in 1899, designed by architect Walter Theodore Krausch.[2][3]:110 That depot still stands; in 2009 then-Governor Chet Culver proposed moving Amtrak back into the older facility.[4]

References

  1. "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2013, State of Iowa" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2013. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
  2. Osmun, Diane R. (2011). Creston. Arcadia Publishing.
  3. Potter, Janet Greenstein (1996). Great American Railroad Stations. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. p. 319. ISBN 978-0471143895.
  4. Ellyson, Tyler (September 24, 2009). "Culver talks trains". News Advertiser. Retrieved 2010-04-15.

External links

Media related to Creston Burlington depot at Wikimedia Commons


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