West Glacier station

West Glacier
Trackside view of West Glacier Amtrak Station
Location	U.S. Hwy 2 and Going-to-the-Sun Rd. West Glacier, MT 59936
Coordinates	48°29′55″N 113°58′18″W / 48.4987°N 113.9716°WCoordinates: 48°29′55″N 113°58′18″W / 48.4987°N 113.9716°W
Owned by	Glacier Natural History Association
Line(s)	Empire Builder
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	2
Other information
Station code	WGL
History
Opened	1910, 1935
Traffic
Passengers (2014)	5,013[1]  22.1%
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station Whitefish toward Seattle or Portland, OR Empire Builder Essex toward Chicago

West Glacier is a station stop for the Amtrak Empire Builder in West Glacier, Montana. The station building, constructed in 1910 and enlarged in 1935, was donated to the Glacier Natural History Association in 1991 and now houses the offices and bookstore of that organization. Amtrak ticketing and other passenger services are not available. The adjacent track and platform continue to be owned by BNSF Railway. The station is historically known as Belton.^[2][3]

Notes and references

1. "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2014, State of Montana" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2014. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
2. "Amtrak - Great American Stations". Amtrak. Retrieved 2009-04-23.
3. Grau, Kara; Bruns-Dubois, Melissa; Nickerson, Norma P. (December 2006). "The Economic Review of the Travel Industry in Montana" (PDF). Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research at the University of Montana. Retrieved 2007-02-02. External link in |publisher= (help)

External links

Media related to West Glacier station at Wikimedia Commons

• West Glacier (WGL) Station, Great American Stations website
• Glacier Natural History Association

• Amtrak – Stations – West Glacier, MT
• West Glacier Amtrak Station (USA Rail Guide -- Train Web)