Bingen-White Salmon (Amtrak station)
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Amtrak
The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak , is a government-owned corporation that was organized on May 1, 1971, to provide intercity passenger train service in the United States. "Amtrak" is a portmanteau of the words "America" and "track". It is headquartered at Union...

's Bingen-White Salmon Station is located in Bingen, Washington
Bingen, Washington
Bingen is a city in Klickitat County, Washington, United States. The population was 712 at the 2010 census, a 6% increase over the 2000 census.-History:Bingen was founded by P.J. Suksdorf in 1892, and named by him for Bingen am Rhein in Germany...

. The station is unstaffed.

The "station" is part of a larger BNSF dispatch center located one block south of Stuben St. (SR 14) in Bingen. The building is orangish-yellow in color. The only indication that it is the train station is facing the tracks, making locating the station by car difficult. This difficulty often causes people new to the area to be unaware that the area is served by rail service.

Of the eighteen Washington stations served by Amtrak, Bingen-White Salmon was the seventeenth busiest in FY10, boarding or detraining an average of about 9 passengers daily.

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