Series of pictures of the station. What a shame not more intercity trains using this station.
http://www.som.com/projects/denver_union_station
To me, it looks better in these photos than it does in reality. My impression is that the platform area was designed to look something like the Denver airport; I don't understand their love of sails.
Nevertheless, at least they have managed to continue to use a very nice station building.
Dakguy201 To me, it looks better in these photos than it does in reality. My impression is that the platform area was designed to look something like the Denver airport; I don't understand their love of sails. Nevertheless, at least they have managed to continue to use a very nice station building.
I feature they were trying to lighten the train area. In the past most station platform areas have been dark and foreboding.
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blue streak 1 Series of pictures of the station. What a shame not more intercity trains using this station. http://www.som.com/projects/denver_union_station
The limited themselves when they ripped up the track south out of the station, and developed the land..
BaltACD Dakguy201 To me, it looks better in these photos than it does in reality. My impression is that the platform area was designed to look something like the Denver airport; I don't understand their love of sails. Nevertheless, at least they have managed to continue to use a very nice station building. I feature they were trying to lighten the train area. In the past most station platform areas have been dark and foreboding.
Lots of light sure beats the dark, dreary cave that is Union Station in Chicago.
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blue streak 1 Series of pictures of the station. What a shame not more intercity trains using this station.
Definitely a market for a Denver to Dallas seasonal ski train. I don't know if we will ever see it though on the BNSF. There is a group down here that keeps trying to restore passenger service to Denver from Dallas over the BNSF......forget what they call themselves. They have not made much headway.
The only interior shots make it look like an air terminal. What have they done with the old main hall -- or is this it?
Nice pics but nothing to show the interior of the head house which is, by the way, absolutely stunning. As fate and vocation would have it I was in Denver just before and just after the station opened. Quite possibly the most attractive public space in the city of Denver. Every time I was there after the opening the place was packed with people enjoying the space and the commuter trains haven't started yet. Bravo, Denver, bravo. I cannot say much about the track area but they did get the station right.
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Can somebody show us the beauty?
Direct service to the south of the station is not possible at present with the removal of those tracks. You first have to jog a mile or so to the north to connect with existing southbound freight track. A bigger problem for SB service, is that the former two track joint line thru the Colorado Springs area had been single tracked before the PRB coal boom. Now that single track section is a bottleneck.
CMStPnP Definitely a market for a Denver to Dallas seasonal ski train. I don't know if we will ever see it though on the BNSF. There is a group down here that keeps trying to restore passenger service to Denver from Dallas over the BNSF......forget what they call themselves. They have not made much headway.
It's not surprising that anybody who is trying to promote Denver-Dallas passenger service has gotten nowhere. Consider that the "Texas Zephyr" was discontinued in 1967 or 1968 for lack of patronage and there hasn't been anything since that date.
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