Needles station

Needles, CA
Original station and hotel with the small BNSF Railway facility, which is now used by Amtrak, on the far left
Location 900 Front Street
Needles, CA 92363
United States
Coordinates 34°50′24″N 114°36′16″W / 34.84000°N 114.60444°W / 34.84000; -114.60444Coordinates: 34°50′24″N 114°36′16″W / 34.84000°N 114.60444°W / 34.84000; -114.60444
Owned by BNSF Railway
Line(s) BNSF Railway
Platforms 1 side + 1 island platform
Tracks 3
Other information
Station code NDL
History
Opened 1908
Traffic
Passengers (2017) 9,176[1] Increase 14.5%
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station
toward Los Angeles
Southwest Chief
toward Chicago
  Former services  
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe
Goffs
toward Los Angeles
Main Line
Topock
toward Los Angeles
Main Line
Major stations
Location
Needles, CA
Location within California

Needles is an Amtrak train station in Needles, California, United States. The station consists of a platform adjacent to a small waiting area located at a BNSF Railway yard.[2]

El Garces Hotel

The Needles station is near the historic El Garces Hotel,[3] built by the Santa Fe Railroad in 1908 for the Fred Harvey Company.[2] It is located near the original station, which closed in 1958 and underwent extensive restoration.[2] The name El Garces was chosen to honor Father Francisco Garces, a missionary who arrived in the area in 1776.[4]

El Garces reopened in 2014 as an intermodal transportation facility, but without the proposed on-site Needles Chamber of Commerce office, and without the original hotel and restaurant.[5][6]

Platforms and tracks

1-3 ■ Southwest Chief toward Los Angeles (Barstow)
■ Southwest Chief toward Chicago (Kingman)

References

  1. ↑ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2017, State of California" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2017. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 "Needles, CA (NDL)". Great American Stations (Amtrak). Retrieved 22 October 2010.
  3. ↑ El Garces Hotel (Official Website) Archived March 27, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ "Needles - Gateway To The Colorado River". Legends of America. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
  5. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-02-18. Retrieved 2014-02-18.
  6. ↑ Warnick, Ron (February 15, 2014). "El Garces may reopen as soon as March as a depot". Route 66 News. Retrieved 20 January 2016.


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