Spokane Intermodal Center
The Spokane Intermodal Center is an intermodal transport facility located in Spokane, Washington, United States. It serves as a service stop for the Amtrak "Empire Builder", as well as the Greyhound, Trailways, and Jefferson Lines station for Spokane. The "Empire Builder" provides service daily between Chicago, Illinois and Spokane before continuing on to Seattle, Washington or Portland, Oregon. The station was built in 1891 for the Northern Pacific Railway. It was remodeled in 1994 to allow buses to share the station, creating an intermodal facility. Since 1981, when the westbound "Empire Builder" arrives in the middle of  the night, the first six Superliner cars (five passenger cars, a diner and a baggage car) go to King Street Station in Seattle, while a single locomotive from Spokane takes the last four cars (the Sightseer Lounge, two coaches and a sleeper) to Portland Union Station. The eastbound trains join in Spokane in the middle of the night and run combined to Chicago Union Station. (The next eastbound stop is in Sandpoint, Idaho and the next westbound stops are in Ephrata, Washington for the Seattle section and Pasco, Washington for the Portland section.) In pre-Amtrak days, the "Empire Builder  split into Seattle and Portland sections at Spokane for most of the 1940s and 1950s. The station located just north of Interstate 90 and is about southwest of the Spokane Center of the University of Washington and southwest of the campus of Gonzaga University. The station, parking lot, and passenger platform are owned by the City of Spokane. The tracks are owned by BNSF Railway.