Essex
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Essex station platform in May 2017
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Location | 290 Izaak Walton Inn Road Essex, Montana |
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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 | ||||||||||
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Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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Parking | None | ||||||||||
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Station code | ESM | ||||||||||
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Passengers (2014) | 2,920 24.5% | ||||||||||
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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.
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.