Reno station

Reno
Amtrak inter-city rail station
The back of the depot with escalator to the depressed tracks
Location	280 North Center Street Reno, Nevada 89501[1] United States
Coordinates	39°31′43″N 119°48′42″W / 39.5287°N 119.8116°WCoordinates: 39°31′43″N 119°48′42″W / 39.5287°N 119.8116°W
Owned by	City of Reno, except the tracks, which are owned by the Union Pacific Railroad
Line(s)	California Zephyr
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Grade separated
Parking	None
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	RNO
History
Opened	1926
Rebuilt	2007
Traffic
Passengers (2013)	78,827[2]  15%
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station Truckee toward Emeryville California Zephyr Winnemucca toward Chicago Sparks closed in 2009 toward Chicago
Location
Location of Reno Amtrak Station within Nevada

The Reno station is a train station in Reno, Nevada, served by Amtrak's California Zephyr train and multiple-frequency daily Thruway Motorcoach service. The California Zephyr runs once daily between Chicago and Emeryville, California (in the San Francisco Bay Area).^{[Note 1]}

Description

The station is located at 280 North Center Street in downtown Reno. The tracks are owned by the Union Pacific Railroad, while the station and passenger platform for are owned by the City of Reno. The station does not have a parking lot. The tracks are grade separated after they were placed below ground level as they pass through the heart of downtown Reno.

The depot was built in 1926 by the Southern Pacific Railroad. It is the 3rd train depot built at this same location. The first two were built by the Central Pacific Railroad; both of these were destroyed by fires. This current Southern Pacific Depot was also used by the Virginia & Truckee Railroad, until 1950, when the railroad ceased operations. The depot was enlarged in 2007, as part of a project called ReTRAC, which lowered the tracks to eliminate most at-grade crossings in downtown Reno. In the process of excavating around the depot, many artifacts from Reno's past were discovered, some exposing not-well-known moments in Reno's history. Several of these are on display in the station lobby, including an old cistern used by the fire department, a long filled-in pedestrian tunnel, a previously unknown basement at a former masonic lodge, a horse watering fountain, American Indian artifacts, and several bottles dating as far back as the 1860s. The Western Pacific Railroad historically provided service to Reno, but never used this depot, instead using the now abandoned Nevada-California-Oregon Railroad Depot, a few blocks to the northeast.

On December 4, 2012, it was announced that the Station would be placed on the National Register of Historic Places.^[4]

Notes

1. As of 13 January 2014, the westbound train (Route 5) is scheduled to stop at 9:36 am and the eastbound train (Route 6) is scheduled to stop at 4:06 pm.^[3]

References

1. "Reno, NV (RNO)". amtrak.com. Amtrak. Retrieved 3 Jan 2014.
2. "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2013, State of Nevada" (PDF). amtrak.com. Amtrak. Nov 2013. Retrieved 3 Dec 2013.
3. "California Zephyr" (PDF). amtrak.com. Amtrak. 13 Jan 2014. p. 2. Retrieved 3 Jan 2014.
4. "Reno’s Southern Pacific/Amtrak on Nat'l Register for Historic Places". KTVN Channel 2 News. 4 Dec 2012. Retrieved 3 Jan 2014.

External links

Media related to Reno (Amtrak station) at Wikimedia Commons

• Amtrak – Stations – Reno, NV
• Reno Amtrak Station TrainWeb
• ReTRAC Project City of Reno
• Reno, NV (RNO) (Amtrak's Great American Stations)