Caliente station

Preceding station	Amtrak			Following station
Las Vegas toward Los Angeles		Desert Wind		Milford toward Chicago
Preceding station	Union Pacific Railroad			Following station
Etna toward Los Angeles		Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad		Eccles toward Salt Lake City
Panaca toward Pioche		Pioche – Caliente		Terminus

Location

Caliente station is a historic Mission Revival style railway station, located in Caliente, Nevada, United States. The station is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Caliente Railroad Depot, and is Nevada Historical Marker number 249.^[1]

History

The station was built by the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad (later the Union Pacific Railroad) in 1923 to serve the railroad's division point on the mainline between Los Angeles, California, and Salt Lake City, Utah.^[2]

The depot is a two-story wood frame stucco building. The first floor held the passenger waiting room, station agent's office and other railroad offices. The second floor was used as a hotel.^[2][3]

The division point at Caliente served as a maintenance facility and was a base for helper locomotives. In the 1950s, as diesel locomotives replaced steam, the railroad no longer needed to use the Caliente site. Maintenance of the locomotives was moved to Las Vegas in 1948.^[2]

Until 1997, the station saw service on Amtrak's Desert Wind.

Present day

In 1970, the building was turned over to the city of Caliente. In order to preserve the depot structure, the city moved its municipal services into the building. The station is now the Caliente city hall, library, and art gallery.^[3]

See also

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• Elko
• Reno
• Winnemucca

• Caliente
• Carlin
• Las Vegas
• Lovelock
• Sparks