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.

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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

_____________________________ 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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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