Lamy station

Lamy station is an Amtrak station at Santa Fe County Road 33, 152 Old Lamy Trail in Lamy, New Mexico, United States. It is served by the Southwest Chief. Until 2014, it was the southern terminus for the Santa Fe Southern Railway.[4] The station was built in 1909 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.

Lamy, NM
Lamy Amtrak/Santa Fe Southern station
General information
LocationSanta Fe County Road 33
152 Old Lamy Trail
Lamy, New Mexico
Coordinates35.4809°N 105.8800°W / 35.4809; -105.8800
Line(s)BNSF Glorieta Subdivision
Platforms1 side platform, 1 island platform
Tracks3
Connections Amtrak Thruway
Other information
Station codeAmtrak: LMY
History
Opened1881
RebuiltDecember 1908–c. July 1909[1][2]
Passengers
FY2019[3] (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station
Albuquerque
toward Los Angeles
 Southwest Chief Las Vegas
toward Chicago
Preceding station Santa Fe Southern Railway Following station
Santa Fe
Terminus
 Santa Fe–Lamy Terminus
Former services
Preceding station Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Following station
Twitchell
toward Los Angeles
 Main Line Glorieta
toward Chicago
Santa Fe
Terminus
 Santa Fe Branch Terminus

Since the 1960s, the station has also served as the intercity link for the state capital of Santa Fe, 18 miles (29 km) to the north.

History

The one-story Lamy depot was built for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in 1909, replacing a two-story wood-frame structure erected in 1881. When the new passenger station opened, the original was converted into a freight depot and served this purpose into the 1940s.

The Santa Fe originally planned to run from Atchison, Kansas., to Santa Fe, N.M., and then west to California. As the track-building advanced into New Mexico, the civil engineers realized that the terrain around Santa Fe made this an impossible undertaking. The line was built through Lamy instead, and a spur line was built northward to Santa Fe. Amtrak passengers headed to the state capital still alight at Lamy, where a shuttle transports them the remaining 18 miles.

East of the depot, the Fred Harvey Company constructed a hotel named El Ortiz in 1910. El Ortiz closed in 1942 and was later demolished.[5]

The Lamy station appears in a 1954 educational Encyclopædia Britannica film called The Passenger Train, produced by Milan Herzog.[6] It also appears in the Bollywood film Kites starring Hrithik Roshan and Barbara Mori.

Routes

See also

References
  1. "New Depot at Lamy and Santa Fe". Santa Fe New Mexican. December 12, 1908. p. 1. Retrieved January 4, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. "Work on New $25,000 Harvey Hotel at Lamy Will Begin Today; Another New Railway Station for Las Cruces". The Albuquerque Journal. July 12, 1909. p. 8. Retrieved January 4, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2019: State of New Mexico" (PDF). Amtrak. May 2020. Retrieved March 2, 2022.
  4. "Santa Fe Southern owner: End of line for tourist trains to Lamy". Santa Fe New Mexican. May 23, 2013. Retrieved May 24, 2013.
  5. "Lamy, New Mexico". The Great American Stations. Retrieved June 24, 2021.
  6. The Passenger Train (Second Edition), Encyclopedia Britannica Films (Internet Archive). Accessed March 8, 2019.


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