The Northern Railway built the line out from Colusa County to Orland, opening for traffic on July 31, 1882.

[3] The railroad had assumed management of the town site a few years earlier.

[4] The Klamath served the station as late as 1954, and ran between Portland and Oakland,[5] but the stop did not appear in the 1966 timetables.

After Amtrak took over nationwide passenger operations, the state lobbied the company in 1974 to add the station as a stop on the Coast Starlight route,[6] running daily from Los Angeles to Seattle.

[8] The station building was subsequently moved to Glenn County Fairgrounds.