La Crosse station is an Amtrak intercity train station in La Crosse, Wisconsin, served by Amtrak's daily Empire Builder line. The train station was originally built in 1926 by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad (AKA "Milwaukee Road"). The station was renovated in 1997 and today is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin as the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Depot, as well as the Milwaukee Road Passenger Depot. The La Crosse Rail Bridge, which crosses the Mississippi River, is located just under two miles west of the La Crosse station. Current services The station is one of only two staffed Amtrak stations in Wisconsin, the other being Milwaukee. In 2019, the La Crosse station was the fourth most frequented station in Wisconsin, with 25,587 passengers. , the Empire Builder departs La Crosse westbound for Seattle and Portland at 8:04pm and eastbound to Chicago at 11:37am. The La Crosse MTU bus service does not directly serve the Amtrak station, but does stop a few blocks away on Rose Street. Previous services In 1910, there were 20 departures a day from the Cameron House station, with trains leaving west to Tacoma and Seattle, to Wessington Springs, South Dakota, south to Savanna, Illinois, and southeast to Chicago. By 1955, the Milwaukee Road timetable shows that there were 12 departures per day, with 5 trains continuing to Minneapolis or beyond, 6 trains to Chicago and 1 departure to Austin, Minnesota. The travel time to St. Paul Union Depot was as short as 2:10, while the shortest time to Chicago Union Station was 4:12. Today, those same journeys take 2:52 and 5:08 respectively. Over the years, service gradually decreased as federal, state and local subsidies for automobile and air travel cut into the profitability of passenger rail. Service to Austin, MN was eliminated in 1960, post office mail contracts were cut in 1967 and by October 1970, there were only 3 daily departures from the Milwaukee Road station. When Amtrak took over passenger rail on May 1, 1971, they immediately reduced the number of trains down to two daily departures, which has remained relatively unchanged for 50 years. Future As of 2021, funding is in place to add a second daily train from Chicago to St. Paul, via the La Crosse station. Service is expected to begin in 2024. In June 2021, Senator Jon Tester (D-Montana) added