The day is approaching when Amtrak passengers will use the new temporary station. Renovation of the building appears to be finished. The outside of the building has gotten a new paint job, signs are in place, and the parking lot is striped. See Update #37 for a reminder of the appearance of inside of the station as it neared completion two months ago. Here are some visual updates of the building. In the second photo, notice that even the lettering on the door is completed.
Across Wewatta Street, most of the passenger platform is now concrete, and most of the canopies have been installed, as you can see in the photo below. From the looks of the foundations, more canopies will be installed later. I am surprised at the length of the platform.
Work has begun on preparing foundations for the tracks. As noted in Update #39 rails were welded into long lengths about six weeks ago.
Please see our Denver Union Station page at JobSiteVistor.com for more photos.
Just in case you didn’t notice, directly across the street from the front door of the Amtrak station is a newly paved path leading from (I imagine) a future parking lot to the Amtrak station.
Will there be a track on each side of that new platform? I can’t tell whether there is enough room between the platform and the Wewatta St. bridge.
OK…… scratch that – upon enlarging the photo it appears that there will not be a track on the Wewatta St. side of the platform. There isn’t enough clearance space for the Amtrak passenger cars heightwise on that side.
I may be wrong….but judging by the substantial investment in that new “temporary” station, I wouldn’t be surprised if Amtrak stays there for a long, long,……time. Maybe for good.
Hope not – the temporary station doesn’t appear to be large enough to accomodate everyone inside at train time….
But then Amtrak did use a ‘temporary’ doublewide trailer in St. Louis for more than 20 years…
Rick,
I didn’t think of this before, but if you want some higher up views of the new Amtrak station, I work in an office building on Wynkoop St. Can then get a different perspective from our building.
Having trouble uploading some poor quality photos with my phone please just send me an email.
Tory Patnoe
tory dot patnoe in the gmail.com domain
Ah, Amshacks. The symbol of rail in America…
At least Denver’s won’t be around very long. At least we’re not tearing down Union Station and replacing it with this, as so many other cities have had happen.