Essex (Amtrak station)
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| Essex | |||
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| Address | 290 Izaak Walton Inn Rd. Essex, MT 59916 |
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| Parking | None | ||
| Baggage check | No | ||
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| Code | ESM | ||
| Owned by | BNSF Railway/Izaak Walton Inn | ||
| Traffic | |||
| Passengers (2007) | 4,194 ▲ 8.6% | ||
Essex, Montana is the only flag stop on the Amtrak Empire Builder route. The station was the ninth-busiest stop in Montana in FY07, on average boarding or detraining eleven passengers daily. The Empire Builder serves eleven other communities in the state.
There is no station building, but the platform is owned by the nearby, historic Izaak Walton Inn in Essex, Montana. [1][2]
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ Amtrak - Great American Stations. Amtrak. Retrieved on 2007-02-01.
- ^ Grau, Kara; Bruns-Dubois, Melissa; Nickerson, Norma P. (December 2006). The Economic Review of the Travel Industry in Montana (PDF). Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research at the University of Montana. Retrieved on 2007-02-01.
[edit] External links
- Essex, Montana at GoNorthwest.com website
- Izaak Walton Inn website
- Essex(ESM) Station, Great American Stations website
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| Empire Builder |
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