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Union Station (Ogden)

Ogden Union Station
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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   BSicon LOGO Amtrak2.svg Amtrak   Following station
1988-1997
toward Seattle
Pioneer
Discontinued in 1997
1991-1997
toward Chicago
1982-1988
toward Seattle
1986-1991
toward Chicago
1977-1981
toward Seattle
1977-1986
toward Chicago
toward Los Angeles
Desert Wind
Before 1983 reroute
toward Chicago
Ogden Union Depot
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 is located in Utah
Ogden Union Station
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.


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