Later this year, all of the passenger tracks will be removed from behind Union Station to enable digging of the bus box hole that will go very close to the back wall of the station structure. As shown in the photo below, three of the five tracks have already been removed and work has started on the fourth. At the current pace, the only tracks to remain past next week will be those used by Amtrak’s California Zephyr.

In anticipation of removing the final set of tracks (probably late-2010), work is in the earliest stages to construct temporary tracks for Amtrak as shown in the following photo taken from Park Avenue, looking toward Union Station. The elevated street on the right is Wewatta. The crossing, elevated street is the HOA lane to/from I-25.

Obviously, Amtrak’s passenger terminal will have to move out of Union Station once the tracks are relocated. The photo below shows the future site of the temporary station. A passenger parking lot will be built nearby. A pedestrian walkway will be constructed over Wewatta Street for passengers to get from the temporary station to the trains parked on the temporary tracks.

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