Main St. and Railroad Ave., Colfax, California. County/parish: Placer.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 15, 1999. NRIS 98001605.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
Colfax station is an Amtrak train station in Colfax, California. Served by the California Zephyr, it is unstaffed. The station was built in 1905 by the Southern Pacific Railroad and was restored in the early 21st century; in addition to a waiting room, the building also houses the Colfax Heritage Museum. The platform is movable to accommodate Union Pacific rotary snowplows, which are liable to scrape a platform eight inches above top of rail.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123860388