Edmonds station in Edmonds, Washington, is an Amtrak and Sound Transit
passenger train station, with service extending to Oregon, British
Columbia, and the American Midwest. A brick building with modernist
elements, the station is adjacent to the Edmonds–Kingston ferry
terminal and a Community Transit bus station, west of the downtown area.
A single platform and a model railroad exhibit are south of the waiting
area. The building was opened by the Great Northern Railway in 1957,
replacing a 1910 depot. Great Northern merged into Burlington Northern
(later BNSF Railway) in 1970, and service to the station ceased when
Amtrak took over Burlington Northern's passenger trains in May 1971.
Service returned in July 1972 on what are now Amtrak's Cascades and
Empire Builder routes. Sound Transit began operating the Sounder North
Line to Edmonds station, between Everett and Seattle, on December 21,
2003, and rebuilt the station and transit center in 2011.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonds_station_%28Washington%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1872:
HMS Challenger sailed from Portsmouth, England, on a scientific
expedition, making many discoveries that laid the foundation of
oceanography.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger_expedition>
1968:
Apollo 8 launched from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, placing
its crew on a trajectory to the Moon, for the first visit to another
celestial body by humans.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8>
1988:
A total of 270 people were killed when a bomb on board Pan Am
Flight 103 exploded while the plane was in flight over Lockerbie,
Scotland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103>
1994:
Mexico's Popocatépetl volcano, dormant for 47 years, began
erupting, and is now one of the nation's most active volcanoes.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popocat%C3%A9petl>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
chilly:
1. Cold enough to cause discomfort.
2. Feeling uncomfortably cold.
3. (figuratively) Distant and cool; unfriendly.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chilly>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Life ought to be a struggle of desire towards adventures whose
nobility will fertilise the soul and lead to the conception of new,
glorious things.
--Rebecca West
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rebecca_West>