Colfax station

{{Short description|Amtrak station in Northern California}}

{{for|the light rail station in Colorado|Colfax station (RTD)}}

{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox station

| style=Amtrak

| name=Colfax, CA

| image=California Zephyr 5 (westbound).jpg

| image_caption=The westbound California Zephyr at Colfax in 2019

| address=99 Railroad Street at Church Street
Colfax, California

| country=United States

| coordinates={{coord|39.0994|-120.9531|type:railwaystation_region:US-CA|display=inline,title}}

| mapframe=yes

| line=Union Pacific Roseville Subdivision{{CA rail schematics|page=2}}

| other={{bus icon}} Amtrak Thruway 20
{{bus icon}} Placer County Transit 60https://placercountytransit.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Route60-Placer-Commuter-Express.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=August 2024}}

| platform=1 side platform

| tracks=2

| parking=Free

| bicycle=

| mpassengers = {{rail pass box|system=Amtrak|passengers={{Amtrak ridership|Colfax}}{{Amtrak ridership|citationCA}}|pass_year={{Amtrak ridership|date}}}}

| opened={{circa|1865}}

| rebuilt=1905
Early 2000s

| original= Central Pacific Railroad

| accessible=

| code={{Amtrak code|COX}}

| owned=

| zone=

| services= {{Adjacent stations|system=Amtrak|line=California Zephyr|left=Roseville|right=Truckee}}

| other_services_header=Former services

| other_services_collapsible=yes

| other_services= {{Adjacent stations

|system=Amtrak|line=Capitol Corridor|left=Auburn|note-mid=1998–2000

|system2=Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad|line2=Main Line|right2=Oilville

}}

| nrhp=

{{Infobox NRHP

| embed=yes

| name=Colfax Passenger Station

| refnum=98001605

}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| embed=yes

| name=Colfax Freight Station

| refnum=99001564

}}

}}

Colfax station is an Amtrak train station in Colfax, California. Served by the California Zephyr, it is unstaffed. The station was built in 1905 by the Southern Pacific Railroad and was restored in the early 21st century; in addition to a waiting room, the building also houses the Colfax Heritage Museum.{{cite web |url=http://www.greatamericanstations.com/stations/colfax-ca-cox/ |work=Great American Stations |title=Colfax, CA (COX) |publisher=Amtrak}} The platform is movable to accommodate Union Pacific rotary snowplows, which are liable to scrape a platform eight inches above top of rail.{{Citation|last=Glischinski|first=Steve|date=December 2010|title=Where the Rotaries Roll On|journal=Trains|volume=70|issue=12|page=24|issn=0041-0934|quote=When the rotaries move out of Roseville, workers have to pull up crossings, and remove the Amtrak station platforms at Rocklin and Colfax to accommodate the plows. The platforms were designed to be portable because of this.}}