Yuma station is an

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station at 281 South Gila Street in

Yuma, Arizona Yuma ( coc, Yuum) is a city in and the county seat of Yuma County, Arizona, United States. The city's population was 93,064 at the 2010 census, up from the 2000 census population of 77,515. Yuma is the principal city of the Yuma, Arizona, M ...

, United States.

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service is provided thrice-weekly in each direction by the ''

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'' and the ''

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'' over this portion of its route. The station's

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, which is adjacent to the station building site, are accessible through a short pedestrian tunnel. The former structure, the Southern Pacific Railroad Depot, was built in 1926 by the

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. After SP ceased passenger operations upon Amtrak's start in 1971, the station housed the Yuma Fine Arts Museum. The depot was listed in the

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in 1976. The structure was devastated in a May 1993 fire and was razed in the summer of 1994.

Schedule

There are three weekly trains in each direction:Sunset Limited Schedule effective March 10, 2013
(Retrieved September 3, 2013) * Westbound Train #1/421 departs at 11:49 pm Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday * Eastbound Train #2/422 departs at 2:47 am Monday, Thursday and Sunday Train #1 is the Westbound New Orleans-Los Angeles ''Sunset Limited'', while train #421 refers to the through coach and sleeper transferred from the ''Texas Eagle'' (Chicago-San Antonio) to the ''Sunset Limited'' in San Antonio. Train #2 is the Eastbound ''Sunset Limited'', traveling from Los Angeles to New Orleans, with a through coach and sleeper designated as Train #422, which is detached in San Antonio and transferred to the Chicago-bound ''Texas Eagle'' #22.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Yuma (Amtrak Station) Buildings and structures in Yuma, Arizona Amtrak stations in Arizona Transportation in Yuma County, Arizona