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Union Station. 4.5. 148 reviews. #14 of 142 things to do in Tacoma. Points of Interest & Landmarks. Write a review. About. This grand relic from the golden age of rail travel was re-opened to visitors in the early 1990s. Read more. Suggest edits to improve what we show. Improve this listing. Full view. All photos (58)
Bet you didn't know Union Station's ceiling is covered in over 120,000 sheets of gold leaf. Here are nine other facts you didn't know about Union Station.
Union Station is a former train station in Seattle, Washington, United States, constructed between 1910 and 1911 to serve the Union Pacific Railroad and the Milwaukee Road. It was originally named Oregon and Washington Station, after a subsidiary line of the Union Pacific.
In the 1990s, the revised Union Station with its expansive administrative office spaces, and its role within regional public transportation, is a response to growing problems created by the area's recent population explosion and by decades of reliance upon automobiles.
Discover Union Station in Seattle, Washington: Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.
While the Union Station Redevelopment Corporation has yet to secure sources of funding, the project is a top contender for new federal infrastructure funds signed by President Biden in 2021, according to The Washington Post. We dug into the FRA’s most recently revised plans. Here are eight things to know about Union Station’s potential future: 1.
Seattle, Washington, USA, North America. A landmark that has benefited from restoration fever is Union Station, the old Union Pacific Railroad depot (1911) that sat unoccupied between 1971 and 1999. The restoration project included the preservation of the original tile floors, clocks and windows.
Union Station was built in 1911 as the Oregon & Washington Railroad Station to serve the Union Pacific Railroad and Milwaukee Road. Passenger rail service was consolidated in the nearby King Street Station by Amtrak in 1971, and Union Station was vacated except for occasional special events in its vast barrel-roofed waiting room.
Discover Tacoma Union Station in Tacoma, Washington: Tacoma's historic Beaux-Arts train station is now a federal courthouse featuring large-scale glass sculptures by artist Dale Chihuly.
Union Station has connected Washington to the nation’s rail grid since 1907. Now the busiest station in the US outside of New York City, its dated facilities struggle to keep pace with the growing tide of railway travel.