Tucumcari station
Tucumcari | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Former Southern Pacific Railroad | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 (formerly) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 (formerly) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Opened | 1901 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Closed | 1968 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rebuilt | 1926 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Electrified | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Former services | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tucumcari Union Station is a train station in Tucumcari, New Mexico, United States. The current station building was erected in 1926. Today, the Tucumcari Railroad Museum occupies the station building. It formerly served the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad and the Southern Pacific Transportation Company as a division point and transfer stop on the joined transcontinental services until these trains were discontinued in 1968.
History
Originally, Tucumcari was a construction camp on the railroad when the line was being built in 1901, called Ragtown. Before Tucumcari was created, the Golden State Limited and other trains ran through the area. Around the time when the town was formed on the line, it was named "Six Shooter Siding" due to many gunfights happening at the camp. The town and station was formally called Douglas until the name changed to Tucumcari in 1908.[1]
Current station building
In 1926, the Rock Island constructed a new
Trains that stopped at the station
- Arizona Limited
- Californian
- Cherokee
- Golden State[3]
- Golden Rocket (cancelled)
- Imperial[4]
Decline and current operations
Starting in the 1950s and 1960s, the number of passengers going through the station declined as with the popularity of rail transport due to the car and
In 1996, the Southern Pacific was acquired by the Union Pacific Railroad, which donated the building to the city of Tucumcari in 2002. Restoration work on the station began and was completed in 2015, and the Tucumcari Railroad Museum now occupies the station building.
In Film
In the classic 1965 Sergio Leone western,
References
- ^ "Tucumcari". New Mexico Office of the State Historian. Archived from the original on 2013-04-15. Retrieved 2012-11-16.
- ^ "Tucumcari, NM train station". 29 August 2012 – via Flickr.[self-published source?]
- ^ "The Golden State" – via American Rails.
- ^ "The Imperial" – via American Rails.
- ^ "Jawbone Dispatching comes to Tucumcari" – via Wx4.