Santa Fe Depot (Rail Runner station)
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Santa Fe Depot
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| Rail Runner Express commuter rail station | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Santa Fe Depot
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| Location | 410 South Guadalupe Street Santa Fe, NM 87502 |
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| Coordinates | 35°41′03″N 105°56′48″W / 35.68417°N 105.94667°WCoordinates: 35°41′03″N 105°56′48″W / 35.68417°N 105.94667°W | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 1 side platform | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Santa Fe Trails North Central Regional Transit District |
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| Disabled access | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | Zone F | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 9 February 1880 (ATSF) 17 December 2008 (NMDOT) |
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Santa Fe Depot is the northern terminus of the New Mexico Rail Runner Express commuter rail line. The station was originally built by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, and until 2014 served as the northern terminus, offices, and gift shop of the Santa Fe Southern Railway, a tourist and freight carrying short line railroad. It is located in Santa Fe, New Mexico at 410 Guadalupe Street, within an area of urban renewal referred to as the "Railyard". Rail Runner service to the station began on December 17, 2008.
The station is served by Santa Fe Trails routes 2, 4, and M, a shuttle connecting the station to several locations in and around downtown Santa Fe, a shuttle service to Taos operated by the North Central Regional Transit District, and a shuttle to the Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino in Pojoaque Pueblo.
Each of the Rail Runner stations contains an icon to express each community's identity. The icon representing this station is a locomotive, representing the history of the rail yard at the site; however the station is devoid of the Rail Runner's distinctive signage portraying the station name and icon.
The depot proper was the namesake station of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe (ATSF) starting February 9, 1880 and for most of the twentieth century. The depot is the northern terminus of a former ATSF spur line running from Santa Fe to Lamy, New Mexico, 18 miles to the south. The spur line was built to connect the railroad's namesake destination to its system when the prohibitive grades into Santa Fe were bypassed by the westward expanding railroad's mainline. An expansive network of track once dominated the area around the Santa Fe Depot, which at its height was served by another station shared by the narrow gauge, D&RG Chili Line trains traveling to the north, and New Mexico Central Railway trains going south. Both of these railroads had been dismantled by 1942.
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