Lamar station (Amtrak)

The Lamar station is a train station in Lamar, Colorado served by Amtrak. It is served by Amtrak's Southwest Chief line. It was originally built in 1907 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, after a long-standing feud between the railroad, and the founder of the former town of Blackwell.[2] The current station is designed in a manner similar to that of Garden City station in Kansas, and also serves as the Lamar Visitor's Center. In 2019 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.[3]

Lamar, CO
Lamar Amtrak station and Visitor's Center.
Location	Main and Beach Streets Lamar, CO 81052
Coordinates	38.0897°N 102.6185°W / 38.0897; -102.6185
Owned by	City of Lamar
Line(s)	BNSF Railway La Junta Subdivision
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	1
Other information
Station code	LMR
History
Opened	1907
Traffic
Passengers (2016)	1,879[1]  2.5%
Services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station La Junta toward Los Angeles Southwest Chief Garden City toward Chicago
Former services Preceding station Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Following station Prowers toward Los Angeles Main Line Granada toward Chicago
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Passenger Depot
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Lamar, Colorado
NRHP reference No.	100004186
Added to NRHP	July 19, 2019

See also

• List of Amtrak stations

References

1. "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2016, State of Colorado" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
2. Lamar, Colorado; Great American Stations (Amtrak)
3. Reyes, Catherine (October 20, 2019). "Lamar's train depot now on National Register of Historic Places". The Denver Post.

External links

• Lamar, CO – Amtrak
• Lamar, Colorado; Great American Stations (Amtrak)
• Lamar Amtrak Station (USA Rail Guide -- TrainWeb)
• Colorado Welcome Center at Lamar (Colorado Tourism Office)
• Remembrances of D. K. Spencer (Santa Fe Online Historical Society)

Former AT&SF locomotive on display at Lamar Station.