Johnstown station is an

Amtrak The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Trade name, doing business as Amtrak () , is the national Passenger train, passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates inter-city rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous United Stat ...

intercity rail station in

Johnstown, Pennsylvania Johnstown is a city in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 18,411 as of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. Located east of Pittsburgh, Johnstown is the principal city of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Metropol ...

, United States. The station is north of downtown Johnstown across the

Little Conemaugh River The Little Conemaugh River is a tributary of the Conemaugh River, approximately 30 mi (48 km) long, in western Pennsylvania in the United States. The main branch rises in eastern Cambria County, along the western slope of the Appalachi ...

. It is served by the daily round trip of the '' Pennsylvanian''.

History

The station building was designed by

Kenneth MacKenzie Murchison Kenneth MacKenzie Murchison, Jr. (September 29, 1872 – December 15, 1938) was a prominent American Beaux-Arts and Gothic Revival architect. Early life He was born in Brooklyn, New York City in 1872. Murchison graduated from Columbia Universi ...

for the

Pennsylvania Railroad The Pennsylvania Railroad (reporting mark PRR), legal name The Pennsylvania Railroad Company also known as the "Pennsy", was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was named ...

and built in 1916. Amtrak took over intercity passenger service in 1971. The cancellation of the '' Three Rivers'' in 2005 (leaving just the ''Pennsylvanian'') marked the first time in Johnstown's railway history that the town was served by just a single daily passenger train. In November 2021, Amtrak announced plans for a renovation of the station, expected to begin in October 2022. The work will include replacement of the existing island platform and headhouse with an accessible platform and headhouse with an elevator, filling of the existing baggage tunnel, and track work.

References

External links

Johnstown Amtrak Station (USA Rail Guide -- Train Web)
{{PRR Main Line stations Amtrak stations in Pennsylvania Stations on the Pittsburgh Line Railway stations in the United States opened in 1916 Buildings and structures in Johnstown, Pennsylvania