Salem (Amtrak station)

Salem
Location	500 13th Street SE Salem, OR United States
Coordinates	44°55′56″N 123°01′41″W / 44.93222°N 123.02806°W / 44.93222; -123.02806Coordinates: 44°55′56″N 123°01′41″W / 44.93222°N 123.02806°W / 44.93222; -123.02806
Owned by	State of Oregon
Line(s)	Union Pacific Railroad
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	1
Connections	Cascades POINT Greyhound Lines
Construction
Parking	25 long term spaces
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	Amtrak code: SLM
History
Opened	1918
Rebuilt	2000
Traffic
Passengers (2016)	61,226  6.4%
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station Albany, OR toward Eugene–Springfield Amtrak Cascades Oregon City toward Vancouver, BC Albany, OR toward Los Angeles Coast Starlight Portland, OR toward Seattle
Salem Southern Pacific Railroad Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Area	2.7 acres (1.1 ha)
Built	1918 (1918)
Architectural style	Queen Anne, Beaux Arts
NRHP Reference #	10000015
Added to NRHP	February 12, 2010

Salem is an Amtrak train station in Salem, Oregon, United States. It is served by the Amtrak Cascades and the Coast Starlight passenger trains.

This station was constructed for the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1918 and is the third station to be built at this location. The two previous stations were built in 1871 and 1889. The 1871 depot burned down in 1885. The Queen Anne-style 1889 depot burned down on March 5, 1917.

The current Beaux-Arts-style structure was designed by Southern Pacific's Chief Architect John H. Christie. It is constructed of masonry, and is one of five masonry depots that still exist along the original Southern Pacific West Coast line. The other depots are in Albany, Medford, Roseburg and Eugene.

A restoration project by the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) was completed in 2000. Amtrak leases the station from ODOT for $1 a year, in exchange for maintenance of the building and grounds.

An 1889 Railway Express Agency (REA) freight depot/baggage shed survived the fire that destroyed the previous station and is the oldest freight depot still in existence in the state. After the 1917 fire, the Queen Anne-style REA depot was relocated from its original site to south of the passenger station. The REA depot has not been used since the mid-1970s, and now awaits restoration.

The station and baggage depot were added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 12, 2010. In 2011, daily ridership on Amtrak between Salem and Portland reached 24,146 boardings.