Cut Bank (Amtrak station)

Cut Bank
Station viewed from the platform, facing east
Station statistics
Address	101 BNSF Industrial Site Off Central Ave./Hwy 213 Cut Bank, MT 59427
Coordinates	48°38′18″N 112°19′54″W / 48.63839°N 112.33153°W / 48.63839; -112.33153Coordinates: 48°38′18″N 112°19′54″W / 48.63839°N 112.33153°W / 48.63839; -112.33153
Lines	Empire Builder
Parking	Yes; free
Baggage check	No
Other information
Code	CUT
Owned by	BNSF Railway
Traffic
Passengers (2011)	2,985[1]  11%
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station Browning toward Seattle or Portland Empire Builder Shelby toward Chicago

Cut Bank, Montana is a station stop for the Amtrak Empire Builder in Cut Bank, Montana and an important regional railway freight yard for the BNSF Railway—which operates no less than three grain collection elevators in the yard collecting grains from the western great plains region. The station, platform, and parking are owned by Amtrak,^[2][3] while the adjacent Railyard sidings, trackage, and signals are owned and operated by BNSF Railway. The station is just under a mile from the scenic Cut Bank Creek gorge called merely "Cut Bank" giving the county-seat, station, and yard each their eponymous names.

The city, in conjunction with Amtrak and current track owner BNSF Railway, recently repainted their historic train station into the traditional Great Northern Railway depot colors. The Great Northern was the original owner of the station and tracks.

Of the twelve Montana stations served by Amtrak, Cut Bank was the eleventh busiest in FY10, boarding or detraining an average of 9 passengers daily.^[4]

Notes and references

1. ^ "Cut Bank, MT (CUT)". Great American Stations. http://www.greatamericanstatons.com/Stations/CUT. Retrieved 18 November 2011. 
2. ^ "Amtrak - Great American Stations". Amtrak. http://www.greatamericanstations.com/Stations/CUT/Station_view. Retrieved 2009-04-23. 
3. ^ Grau, Kara; Bruns-Dubois, Melissa; Nickerson, Norma P. (December 2006). "The Economic Review of the Travel Industry in Montana" (PDF). Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research at the University of Montana. http://www.itrr.umt.edu/ecorev/Economicreview2006.pdf. Retrieved 2007-02-01. 
4. ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2010, State of Montana" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2010. http://www.amtrak.com/pdf/factsheets/MONTANA10.pdf. Retrieved 2011-01-06. 

External links

• Cut Bank (CUT) Station, Great American Stations website
• Amtrak – Stations – Cut Bank, MT
• Cut Bank Amtrak Station (USA RailGuide -- TrainWeb)