East Glacier Park station explained

Style:Amtrak
East Glacier Park, MT
Address:400 Hwy 49 North
Borough:East Glacier Park Village, Montana
Country:United States
Coordinates:48.4439°N -113.2185°W
Owned:BNSF Railway
Line:BNSF Hi Line Subdivision
Platform:1 side platform
Tracks:3
Parking:Yes
Accessible:Yes
Status:Open seasonally (April–October); Station building with waiting room
Opened:1913
Former:Glacier Park
Other Services Header:Former services
Other Services Collapsible:yes
Mapframe:yes

East Glacier Park station is a train station in East Glacier Park Village, Montana. It is a seasonal stop for Amtrak's Empire Builder line, open from April to October. It serves mostly visitors to Glacier National Park. It functions as an alternate to Browning station on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, which opens from October to April.

The historic Glacier Park Lodge was built in 1913 by the Great Northern Railway. The hotel is within a block's distance from the station, and thus arriving passengers can walk to the Glacier Park Hotel if they wish, but typically a van from the hotel meets the train and will carry passengers and their luggage to the hotel. The station, platform, and parking are owned by BNSF Railway.[1] [2] This station operates during the summer only.

The station has a sign that reads Glacier Park (its historic former name), but the current "East Glacier Park" name is used on Amtrak schedules and by train personnel when making the onboard arrival announcement.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Amtrak - Great American Stations . April 23, 2009 . Amtrak.
  2. Web site: Grau . Kara . Bruns-Dubois, Melissa . Nickerson, Norma P. . December 2006 . The Economic Review of the Travel Industry in Montana . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131230171913/http://itrr.umt.edu/ecorev/Economicreview2006.pdf . December 30, 2013 . February 1, 2007 . . PDF.