Ottumwa, IA is an Amtrak Station in a small city in southeastern Iowa. It is served by one train per day, The California Zephyr. The current station building is a large limestone faced building that was opened in 1951. Most of it currently contains the Wapello County Historical Society. That also has a Burlington Route locomotive that is barely visible behind the station building on the western end of the platform. Amtrak still maintains a staffed station and waiting area in the building, although there is no checked baggage service.
Source: The Great American Stations

(ottumwa1) The simple track level tar platform at Ottumwa, IA gets narrower at the perfect place and ends just after the door of the last Superliner car of the California Zephyr that is stopped for a fresh air stop.Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 20 August, 2008	(ottumwa2) Passengers wait to board the westbound California Zephyr at Ottumwa, IA under the at least fifty year old peeling metal canopy.Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 20 August, 2008	(ottumwa3) The large former CB&Q (Burlington & Quincy Railway) limestone station building at Ottumwa, IA viewed from a distance from the platform.Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 20 August, 2008	(ottumwa4) An old style Amtrak sign for Ottumwa is over the small canopied area right in front of the door to the waiting room.Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 20 August, 2008
(ottumwa5) A closer view of the entrance to the decent sized waiting area of the Ottumwa Station building. The doors into it from the platform have a very 1950s look.Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 20 August, 2008	(ottumwa6) Basic block black Ottumwa text on a side of the very large station building, part of which is now a historical society.Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 20 August, 2008	(ottumwa7) The front two Superliner sleepers haven't opened their doors on the California Zephyr stopped at Ottumwa, IA.Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 20 August, 2008	(ottumwa8) A sign for the Wapello County Historical Museum that now occupies most of the large station building at Ottumwa, IA.Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 20 August, 2008
(ottumwa9) A metal structure that looks like a former platform canopy covers some cars parked at the Ottumwa, IA Amtrak station.Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 20 August, 2008	(ottumwa10) The metal canopy on the long platform at Ottumwa, IA fades into the distance with the baggage car and Genesis P42 Locomotives of the California Zephyr coming into view.Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 20 August, 2008	(ottumwa11) A close up of the baggage car of the California Zephyr It's Heritage Baggage Car #1756. That still has its former use for United States Mail written on it.Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 20 August, 2008	(ottumwa12) An unprecedented four Genesis P42 Locomotives are being used to pull the 9 Superliner Cars and Heritage Baggage car of the California Zephyr. The extra locomotives are there probably because Amtrak needs to move some of them across to California.Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 20 August, 2008
(ottumwa13) The sun sets on the Genesis P42 Locomotives of the Westbound California Zephyr, the first of two sunsets (if not three before a late night arrival) viewed by passengers going all the way to the Bay Area onboard the California Zephyr.Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 20 August, 2008	(ottumwa14) A side of the Ottumwa, IA station building as some garage style doors into it. The Ottumwa lettering looks quite warn.Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 20 August, 2008	(ottumwa15) Mostly the tender of CB&Q Locomotive #3001 is visible behind the cars parked in the small parking lot at the Ottumwa, IA train station.Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 20 August, 2008

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