Flagstaff Train Station - Arizona, USA

Flagstaff's historic depot sits beside Route 66 on BNSF's Southern Transcon, the main freight line between Chicago and Los Angeles, so long freight trains roll past day and night, and Amtrak's Southwest Chief stops here once a day in each direction.

The Santa Fe Railway opened this Tudor Revival station in January 1926, and today it also houses the Flagstaff Visitor Center. At 6,902 feet (2,104 m) above sea level, the station is surrounded by tall ponderosa pine forest rather than desert.

The town takes its name from a ponderosa pine that was stripped of its branches and raised as a flagpole on July 4, 1876, and on Mars Hill just above town, Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto at Lowell Observatory in 1930.

Did You Know? In 2001, Flagstaff became the world's first International Dark Sky City, thanks to lighting rules that keep its night skies dark.

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