Edmonds is a train station serving the city of Edmonds, Washington, in the United States. The station is served by Amtrak’s Cascades and Empire Builder routes, as well as Sound Transit’s Sounder North Line. It is located west of Downtown Edmonds adjacent to the city’s ferry terminal, served by the Edmonds–Kingston ferry, and a Community Transit bus station.
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Edmonds is a train station serving the city of Edmonds, Washington, in the United States. The station is served by Amtrak’s Cascades and Empire Builder routes, as well as Sound Transit’s Sounder North Line, which runs between Everett and Seattle. It is located west of Downtown Edmonds adjacent to the city’s ferry terminal, served by the Edmonds–Kingston ferry, and a Community Transit bus station. Edmonds was founded in 1876 and received its first railroad in 1891, constructed by the Seattle and Montana Railroad between Seattle and British Columbia. The Great Northern Railway later acquired the railroad and completed its transcontinental route to Seattle in 1893. The original station was located on the west side of the tracks away from downtown and derided as inaccessible and undersized for the growing city. The new Edmonds depot opened in November 1910, constructed with clapboard sidings and had a wooden platform that was connected to street level by a series of ramps, which were later decorated with railroad knick-knacks. Great Northern merged into Burlington Northern in 1970; passenger service ceased when Amtrak took over Burlington Northern’s passenger routes the following year. Sound Transit began operating Sounder trains to Edmonds station in December 2003, and later funded a project to rebuild the station and transit center in 2011.
It contains Standing Wave, a 12-foot bronze-and-patina sculpture by Gerard Tsutakawa resembling aseries of waves, installed as part of Sound Transit’s art program. The Amtrak building is located south of James Street and includes a staffed ticket office, waiting room, vending machines, and restrooms. At the north end of the station platform is a transit center used by Community Transit buses. It has 259 parking spaces for Amtrak and Sound Transit passengers, including leased spaces from the nearby Salish Crossing shopping mall—home to the Cascadia Art Museum and several businesses. It was initially served by eight passenger trains: transcontinental trains and local service to Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia, and limited Freight Freight services from the Olympic Peninsula. By the late 1950s, Great Northern’s declining passenger service left Edmonds with only one daily train: the Cadian from Seattle to Spokane. The former depot was demolished on December 18, 1956, and the new station was substantially complete by the end of November 1956. The building was designed with Modernist elements, including clean lines in the exterior brick walls laid in a stacked bond and large floor-to-ceiling windows. It includes a freight room with a garage and a hobbyist model railroad exhibit in the station’s former baggage room.
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