Essex station (Montana)

Essex
The Empire Builder and the Izaak Walton Inn.
Location	290 Izaak Walton Inn Road Essex, MT 59916
Coordinates	48°16′31″N 113°36′37″W / 48.27525°N 113.61030°WCoordinates: 48°16′31″N 113°36′37″W / 48.27525°N 113.61030°W
Owned by	BNSF Railway/Izaak Walton Inn
Line(s)	Empire Builder
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	2
Construction
Parking	None
Other information
Station code	ESM
Traffic
Passengers (2014)	2,920[1]  24.5%
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station West Glacier toward Seattle or Portland, OR Empire Builder East Glacier Park toward Chicago

Essex station is a flag stop on Amtrak's Empire Builder line in Essex, Montana. Essex has a year-round population of less than 50; most passengers are visitors to the historic Izaak Walton Inn located nearby.^[2][3]

There currently is no station building at Essex. In late 2010, Amtrak built a concrete platform with embedded heating coils for automatic snow clearance to replace the former asphalt platform, and also added additional lighting and fencing. The conductor has a computer-generated lists of passengers needing to board or detrain, and thus knows if the Empire Builder needs to stop in Essex on any given day.

References

1. "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2014, State of Montana" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2014. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
2. "Amtrak - Great American Stations". Amtrak. Retrieved 2009-04-23.
3. 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 2007-02-01. External link in |publisher= (help)

External links

• Media related to Essex station (Montana) at Wikimedia Commons
• Essex (ESM) Station, Great American Stations website

• Amtrak – Stations – Essex, MT
• Essex Amtrak Station (USA Rail Guide -- Train Web)