Las Vegas (Amtrak station)

This article is about the railroad station in Las Vegas, New Mexico. For the Las Vegas, Nevada station, see Las Vegas Union Pacific Station.

Las Vegas
The remnants of the Hotel Castañeda and Las Vegas Amtrak Station in recent times.
Location	Railroad Street and Lincoln Avenue Las Vegas, NM 87701
Coordinates
Line(s)
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	2
Other information
Station code	LSV
History
Opened	1899
Traffic
Passengers (2013)	5,376  4.9%
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station Lamy toward Los Angeles Southwest Chief Raton toward Chicago   Former services   Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Chapelle toward Los Angeles Main Line Watrous toward Chicago Dearborn Station Lamy toward Los Angeles Main Line Major stations Raton toward Chicago Dearborn Station

The Las Vegas station is a train station located at Railroad Street & Lincoln Avenue in Las Vegas, New Mexico.

Built in 1899, the two-story brick depot was designed in the Spanish Mission style and features a red tile roof, ornate metal brackets and a curving parapet. The station was renovated in 2000, when approximately $1.2 million was secured from federal, state and private sources. It reopened as the Las Vegas Intermodal Facility and now houses a passenger waiting room and the city's Visitor Center.

The station is near the Hotel Castañeda, a former hotel built by Fred Harvey for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. The hotel's architects were Frederick Roehrig and A. Reinsch. The hotel is the oldest Mission Revival Style building in the state of New Mexico, opening for business on January 1, 1899. Though the hotel has been closed since 1948, it now (2014) has a new owner. Developer Allan Affeldt and partners bought the historic hotel in Spring 2014. Affeldt had already bought, refurbished and opened the historic Harvey House hotel La Posada in Winslow, Arizona.

The station and former hotel are contributing properties to the Railroad Avenue Historic District.

Routes

• Southwest Chief

External links

• Media related to at Wikimedia Commons

• Amtrak – Stations – Las Vegas, NM
• Las Vegas Amtrak Station (USA Rail Guide -- TrainWeb)
• Las Vegas, NM (LSV) (Amtrak's Great American Stations)

• La Castaneda Hotel – Las Vegas Citizens' Committee for Historic Preservation
• http://www.azcentral.com/story/money/real-estate/2014/04/21/northern-arizona-hotelier-buys-historic-hotel-las-vegas-nm/7978975/