Las Vegas station (New Mexico)

Las Vegas station is an Amtrak train station at Railroad Avenue and Lincoln Street in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Built in 1899, the two-story brick station building was designed in the Spanish Mission style and features a red tile roof, ornate metal brackets and a curving parapet. The station was renovated in 2000, when approximately $1.2 million was secured from federal, state and private sources. It reopened as the Las Vegas Intermodal Facility and now houses a passenger waiting room and the city's Visitor Center.[4]

For stations in Las Vegas, Nevada, see Las Vegas station (Nevada) and Las Vegas station (Brightline West).
Las Vegas, NM
The Las Vegas Amtrak station in 2007
General information
LocationRailroad Avenue and Lincoln Street
Las Vegas, New Mexico
Coordinates35.5935°N 105.2126°W / 35.5935; -105.2126
Line(s)BNSF Railway Raton / Glorieta Subdivisions
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks2
Other information
Station codeAmtrak: LSV
History
OpenedJuly 4, 1879[1]
Rebuilt–January 17, 1899[2]
Passengers
FY 20223,051[3] (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station
Lamy
toward Los Angeles
 Southwest Chief Raton
toward Chicago
Former services
Preceding station Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Following station
Romero
toward Los Angeles
 Main Line Watrous
toward Chicago

The station is near the Castañeda Hotel, a former hotel built by Fred Harvey for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.[5] The hotel's architects were Frederick Roehrig and A. Reinsch. The hotel is the oldest Mission Revival Style building in the state of New Mexico, opening for business on January 17, 1899.[2]

The station and former hotel are contributing properties to the Railroad Avenue Historic District.

Routes

See also

Bibliography
  • Federal Writers' Project (1940). New Mexico: A Guide to the Colorful State. Coronado Cuarto Centennial Commission. ISBN 9781623760304. Retrieved November 9, 2021.

References
  1. Federal Writers' Project 1940, p. 96.
  2. "The California-Chicago flyer from..." The Las Vegas Daily Optic. January 17, 1899. p. 2. Retrieved November 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  3. "Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2022: State of New Mexico" (PDF). Amtrak. June 2023. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
  4. "Las Vegas Station". Amtrak's Great American Stations. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  5. La Castaneda Hotel – Las Vegas Citizens' Committee for Historic Preservation Archived 2011-01-21 at the Wayback Machine
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