Rocklin station

Rocklin, CA
Rocklin, CA
	Rocklin station, October 3, 2012
Location	Rocklin Road and Railroad Avenue; Rocklin, CA 95677
Coordinates	38.7911°N 121.2374°W
Line(s)	Union Pacific Railroad Roseville Subdivision[1]
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach to Sacramento[2]
Other information
Station code	RLN
History
Rebuilt	2006
Traffic
Passengers (2018)	16,918[3] 6.23% (Amtrak)
Services
	California Zephyr does not stop here
Location

Rocklin station is an Amtrak California train station in Rocklin, California, United States.

History

The city and the Placer County Transportation Planning Agency funded the design and construction of the current $1.25 million depot, which opened in July 2006.[4] Designed by Studio SMS of nearby Roseville and inspired by historic 19th and early 20th century stations, the depot is dominated by a clock tower. The building is finished in a random ashlar stone veneer in varying shades of grey and beige and stucco with complementary brown tones.[4]

In FY2012 Rocklin was the 43rd-busiest of Amtrak's 74 California stations, boarding or detraining an average of about 90 passengers daily.[5]

Design

The depot has a waiting room for rail and bus passengers, and there are also offices for the Rocklin Area Chamber of Commerce as well as a room reserved for community meetings.[4]

Rocklin station has moveable platforms to accommodate Union Pacific's rotary snowplows, which require clearance of 8 in (20 cm) above the rail.[6]

Platforms and tracks

Westbound	■ Capitol Corridor	toward San Jose (Roseville)
Westbound	■ California Zephyr	No stops
Eastbound	■ Capitol Corridor	toward Auburn (Terminus)
Eastbound	■ California Zephyr	No stops

References

SMA Rail Consulting (April 2016). "California Passenger Rail Network Schematics" (PDF). California Department of Transportation.
"Capitol Corridor" (PDF). Amtrak. June 17, 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 4, 2019. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
"Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2018, State of California" (PDF). Amtrak. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
Great American Stations. Accessed February 15, 2013.
"Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2012, State of California" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2012. Retrieved 2013-05-11. External link in |publisher= (help)
Glischinski, Steve (December 2010), "Where the Rotaries Roll On", Trains Magazine, 70 (12): 24, ISSN 0041-0934, When the rotaries move out of Roseville, workers have to pull up crossings, and remove the Amtrak station platforms at Rocklin and Colfax to accommodate the plows. The platforms were designed to be portable because of this.

External links

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[schematics-1] SMA Rail Consulting (April 2016). "California Passenger Rail Network Schematics" (PDF). California Department of Transportation.

[timetable-2] "Capitol Corridor" (PDF). Amtrak. June 17, 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 4, 2019. Retrieved April 12, 2020.

[3] "Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2018, State of California" (PDF). Amtrak. Retrieved 28 December 2019.

[Great_American_Stations-4] Great American Stations. Accessed February 15, 2013.

[amtrak_fact_sheet-5] "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2012, State of California" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2012. Retrieved 2013-05-11. External link in |publisher= (help)

[6] Glischinski, Steve (December 2010), "Where the Rotaries Roll On", Trains Magazine, 70 (12): 24, ISSN 0041-0934, When the rotaries move out of Roseville, workers have to pull up crossings, and remove the Amtrak station platforms at Rocklin and Colfax to accommodate the plows. The platforms were designed to be portable because of this.