Union Station (Ogden)

Ogden Union Station
Station building, reconstructed in 1924 after the fire
Location	2501 South Wall Avenue Ogden, Utah United States
Coordinates	41°13′15″N 111°58′47″W / 41.22083°N 111.97972°W / 41.22083; -111.97972Coordinates: 41°13′15″N 111°58′47″W / 41.22083°N 111.97972°W / 41.22083; -111.97972
Owned by	City of Ogden
Operated by	Formerly Amtrak
Platforms	1 island and 1 side platform
Tracks	Utah State Railroad Museum
Construction
Parking	Yes
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Status	Closed
Station code	OGD
History
Opened	1869
Closed	May 1997
Rebuilt	1889 and 1924
Services
Former services   Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station Pocatello 1988-1997 toward Seattle Pioneer Discontinued in 1997 Evanston 1991-1997 toward Chicago Cache Junction 1982-1988 toward Seattle Salt Lake City (D&RGW Depot) 1986-1991 toward Chicago Brigham City 1977-1981 toward Seattle Salt Lake City (UP Depot) 1977-1986 toward Chicago Salt Lake City (UP Depot) toward Los Angeles Desert Wind Before 1983 reroute Evanston toward Chicago
Ogden Union Depot
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Built	1924
Architect	John Parkinson and Donald B. Parkinson
Architectural style	Spanish Colonial Revival
NRHP Reference #	71000867 05000363 (boundary increase)
Added to NRHP	April 11, 1971
Location
Ogden Union Station Location within Utah

Union Station, also known as Ogden Union Station, is a train station in Ogden, Utah, at the west end of Historic 25th Street, just south of the Ogden Intermodal Transit Center. It was formerly the junction of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads. The name Union Station was commonly given to train stations where tracks and facilities were shared by two or more railway companies.

Although Union Station no longer serves as a railway hub, it is the heart of Ogden and remains a gathering place for the community. The museums housed at the Station include the Utah State Railroad Museum, the Spencer S. Eccles Rail Center, the John M. Browning Firearms Museum, Utah Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum and the Browning-Kimball Classic Car Museum. Gifts at the Station sells gifts and a variety of museum related items, books, prints, jewelry, and souvenirs. Gallery at the Station is a for sale exhibit that features local and regional artists every month. The Myra Powell Gallery features traveling exhibits and the Station's permanent art collection. Union Station Research Library has an extensive collection of historic Ogden photographs and documents available to the public.

The last long-distance passenger trains to use Union Station were the final runs of Amtrak's Pioneer through Ogden in May 1997. The adjacent Ogden Intermodal Transit Center currently serves the Utah Transit Authority's (UTA) FrontRunner commuter rail line.

On March 8, 1869, Union Pacific came to Ogden on its way to Promontory Summit to meet the Central Pacific, thus completing the transcontinental rail line. Four cities near this location, Corinne, Promontory, Uintah, and Ogden, competed with each other for the opportunity to house the train station that would be the junction for railroad travel in the Intermountain West. Promontory and Uintah lacked the necessary resources to house the Station. Corinne and Ogden competed for many years for the "Junction City" title, until Brigham Young donated several hundred acres of land to the two railroads on the condition that they build the yards and station in west Ogden.