Phoenix Union Station: Pictures, Maps, etc.

Inside

• Union Station Grand Lobby, 1993 Elizabeth Garey, ARPA founder George Loulan, and friends wait for the Sunset Limited.
• Grand Lobby, ca. 1995. Sunlight streams into this beautiful space. At right on the far wall is the Harvey Stand.
• Rob Lindley and Mike Garey, ARPA volunteers, distributing free coffee and advice from the one-time Harvey Stand, May 1995 The Harvey Stand still retains its original iceboxes, mahogany display cases, and lead-lined cigar humidor.

Outside

• June, 2001 SuperShuttle and other vans line up in front of Phoenix Union Station to retrieve passengers from the American Orient Express train.
• June, 2001 American Orient Express arrives Union Station
• June, 2001 AOE sleeper "Grand Canyon" at Phoenix
• May 5, 2000 before the TALGO demonstration run to Tucson
• View from west, 1999 Note existing track is Track 3. Track 1 is occupied by palm trees; track positions 2, 4, 5 stand vacant. To left of palm trees (west of the station) could be restored at least two tracks for handling mail and express.
• Santa Fe Freight House, 1999 Threatened with demolition. Part of the building was removed years ago.
• Santa Fe Freight House, Office at east end, 1999 With Santa Fe logo in concrete and some additional concrete details, this is the most likely part of the building to be reused.
• Phoenix Station: South Entrance (Platform side), ca. 1993
• South Entrance, ca. 1995
• Track and Platforms, ca. 1995
• Platforms, looking northeast, ca. 1993
• North (Street) Entrance, ca. 1995
• Platform side of the Station, showing the Harvey Newsstand and Lunch Counter
• Street entrance, as it appeared for the Demonstration Run to Tucson, 12 February 1993
• Santa Fe Freight House, on west side of Union Station, as it appeared in 1995. SP uses the tracks in front of the Freight House as a switching lead.

Aerial

• Aerial View, from the Southwest, demonstrates Union Station's proximity to Downtown Phoenix.
• Aerial Overview of Phoenix

Amtrak

• Sunset Limited takes on water and fuel at Phoenix, June 1994

Special Trains

• 1996 Olympic Torch Relay Train (UP, 1996)
  • Phoenix Union Station stands prepared and the crowd awaits
  • Olympic Torch Relay Train arrives
• ICE Train Tour, 1993
  • Panoramic view
    (ICE Train is on Track 3, now the only remaining track; as you can see, the former Track 2 is now occupied by palm trees and is fenced in along with Track 1 and the west stub-end track).
  • Trackside on Track 3
  • More about the ICE Train Tour
• Other Special Trains

Historic

• Photo from the Official Souvenir, Main Line Exposition, October 15, 1926 [source: Arizona State Capitol Library]

Maps

• Lycos Map of Phoenix Union Station vicinity
• 1940 Track Map ( based on 1940 Plat map, below)
• 1940 Plat map, showing Union Station's five through tracks, stub end tracks, and the roundhouse just west of the station building.
  The "M&P&SRVRR" in the lower right refers to the Maricopa & Phoenix & Salt River Valley Railroad, which was the merger of the Maricopa & Phoenix RR and the Phoenix, Tempe, and Mesa Ry. in 1895.

Miscellaneous

• Controlled Point 9059, just west of the depot. Track to the right connects to BNSF "Peavine" line; center track diverges left and south to the UP/SP West line, track on left is station freight bypass. All trains connecting between BNSF and UP/SP must pass through Union Station.
• Winnie Ruth Judd, the 1931 "Trunk Murderess," checked her bags here.

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