Eugene station (Amtrak)

Eugene
Eugene
	Eugene station with the Coast Starlight in 2018
General information
Location	433 Willamette Street; Eugene, Oregon; United States
Coordinates	44°03′19″N 123°05′32″W / 44.05528°N 123.09222°W
Owned by	City of Eugene
Line(s)	Union Pacific Railroad
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Lane Transit District; LinkLane; Pacific Crest Bus Lines; POINT
Construction
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	Amtrak: EUG
History
Opened	1908; 116 years ago
Rebuilt	2004; 20 years ago
Passengers
FY 2023	123,521 (Amtrak)
Services
Former services
	Springfield Via Cascade Line toward Oakland Pier
	Southern Pacific Passenger Depot
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Interior of the Eugene Depot
Location	Eugene, Oregon
Architect	Modeled after stations by H. H. Richardson
Architectural style	American Craftsman, Richardsonian Romanesque
NRHP reference No.	07000823
Added to NRHP	August 16, 2007
Location
Location

Eugene station (alternately Eugene–Springfield station) is a train station in Eugene, Oregon, United States. It is served by Amtrak's Coast Starlight passenger train and is the southern terminus of the Amtrak Cascades corridor. The station is also served by the Cascades POINT bus service.

History

The station was built in 1908 by the Southern Pacific Railroad and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Southern Pacific Passenger Depot in 2007.^[3]

The current station is the third passenger depot built at this location.^[2] Built of masonry, it 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 Salem.^[4]

When Amtrak took over intercity rail operations in 1971, it cut back service to a single train through Eugene, what eventually became the Coast Starlight. A brief attempt at corridor service began in 1980 with the Willamette Valley, but ended in 1981. For the next 13 years, the only intercity service through Eugene was the Coast Starlight, which arrived northbound at lunchtime and southbound during the afternoon rush. However, in 1994, Amtrak extended the Seattle-Portland Mount Rainier to Eugene on a trial basis. This proved successful enough that the train was renamed the Cascadia in 1995. The Cascadia was merged into Amtrak Cascades along with all of Amtrak's other Pacific Northwest services in 1998, and a Portland-Eugene round trip was added in 2000.

Southern Pacific sold the building to the Jenova Land Company in 1993, and ten years later the city of Eugene bought the depot as part of a plan to develop a regional transportation center. In 2004, the city oversaw a $4.5 million restoration project. Workers restored the exterior brickwork and trim and gutted and renovated the interior. New tile floors, oak and fir trim, covered ceilings, wooden benches and expanded bathrooms were installed.^[5]