King Street Station
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View from the northeast with Qwest Field in the background, 2004
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View from the southeast with the Smith Tower under construction in the background, 1913
King Street Station is a train station built from 1904 to 1906 by the Great Northern Railway and Northern Pacific Railway. Located between S. King and S. Jackson Streets and 2nd and 4th Avenues S. in the Pioneer Square neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, it is currently owned by the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway and is served by Amtrak's Cascades, Empire Builder, and Coast Starlight lines and by Sound Transit's Sounder Express trains. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
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View from the west, 1913
External links
- King Street Station (National Register of Historic Places) (http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/seattle/s31.htm)
- King Street Station (Sound Transit) (http://www.soundtransit.org/sounder/stations/SdrKing%20Street/SdrKingSt.htm)
- King Street Station (Washington State Department of Transportation) (http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/rail/transit/kss/default.cfm)