| Style: | Amtrak |
| Santa Ana, CA | |
| Other Name: | Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center |
| Address: | 1000 East Santa Ana Boulevard |
| Borough: | Santa Ana, California |
| Coordinates: | 33.7516°N -117.8565°W |
| Owned: | City of Santa Ana |
| Line: | SCRRA Orange Subdivision |
| Platform: | 2 side platforms |
| Tracks: | 2 |
| Train Operators: | Metrolink and Amtrak |
| Parking: | 578 spaces, 13 accessible spaces |
| Bicycle: | Racks and lockers |
| Accessible: | Yes |
| Architect: | The Blurock Partnership |
| Architectural Style: | Mediterranean Revival/Spanish Colonial Revival |
| Status: | Staffed, station building with waiting room |
| Opened: | [1] |
| Other Services Header: | Future services |
| Other Services Collapsible: | yes |
| Other Services2 Header: | Former services |
| Other Services2 Collapsible: | yes |
| Mapframe: | yes |
| Mapframe-Zoom: | 14 |
The Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center is a passenger rail station and transportation center in Santa Ana, California. It is used by Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner and Metrolink's Orange County Line and Inland Empire–Orange County Line trains. It is also a Greyhound station and a hub for the Orange County Transportation Authority bus system as well as a terminal for international bus services to Mexico.
When the station opened on September 7, 1985, it was the largest new rail station built in the United States since the completion of the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal circa 1955. The center was erected on the site of a former Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway combination depot that had been constructed in 1939 and closed in 1982.[2] The station, which cost approximately $17 million, was funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation, California Department of Transportation, and the city of Santa Ana.[3]
In FY2010 Santa Ana was the 22nd-busiest of Amtrak's 73 California stations, boarding or detraining an average of about 420 passengers daily.[4]
See main article: OC Streetcar. Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center will be the eastern terminus of the OC Streetcar, a 4.15miles streetcar line through Downtown Santa Ana, a major regional employment area, to a new transit center and Park and Ride in Garden Grove at Harbor Boulevard and Westminster Avenue (both major bus corridors).
The station was designed by the Blurock Partnership architectural firm in the Spanish Colonial Revival and Mediterranean Revival architectural styles to complement the region's older buildings. Features include red barrel roof tiles, arcades, colonnades, exterior walls finished to resemble stucco, and the extensive use of painted tiles for decoration.
The last scene in the movie Rain Man was filmed at the station.[5] [6] Its exterior and interior appeared in the second season of True Detective in 2015.[7]