Tacoma (Amtrak station)
Encyclopedia
Tacoma, Washington is the station stop for the Amtrak
Coast Starlight
and Amtrak Cascades
serving Tacoma
, Washington, USA
. Of the 18 Washington stations served by Amtrak, Tacoma was the second busiest in FY10, boarding or detraining an average of about 350 passengers daily.
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...
Coast Starlight
Coast Starlight
The Coast Starlight is a passenger train operated by Amtrak on the West Coast of the United States. It runs from King Street Station in Seattle, Washington, to Union Station in Los Angeles, California. The train's name was formed as a merging of two of Southern Pacific's train names, the Coast...
and Amtrak Cascades
Amtrak Cascades
The Amtrak Cascades is a passenger train route operated by Amtrak in partnership with the states of Washington and Oregon in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and the province of British Columbia in Canada...
serving Tacoma
Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is on Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and northwest of Mount Rainier National Park. The population was 198,397, according to...
, Washington, USA
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. Of the 18 Washington stations served by Amtrak, Tacoma was the second busiest in FY10, boarding or detraining an average of about 350 passengers daily.