Denver Union Station Archives - The Trackside Photographer

Posted on May 21, 2020May 28, 2020 by admin

From My Perch
at Denver’s Union Station

The view’s the same, but always different

***Blue Hour Overhead***
*A late November thunderstorm passes through as commuters at Denver’s Union Station are waiting for their trains and heading home.*
*Nove*mber 17, 2017

I started photographing from the perch at Denver’s Union Station in March of 2015, when Amtrak announced they were going to run a Winter Park ski train to see if there was still interest after the Rio Grande stopped running the ski train a few years earlier.

Posted on June 1, 2017June 8, 2017 by admin

New Life for an Old Station

A bit of the new and a bit of the old at Denver Union Station. The graceful curves of the new canopy frame the old Beaux Arts structure as Amtrak Train #6, the eastbound California Zephyr, arrives on March 8th, 2015.

Denver’s Union Station has been a fixture in the Mile High City for more than a century. The dominant Beaux Arts portion of the building dates to 1914. In the early 2000’s the station became the centerpiece of a transportation themed urban redevelopment known as FasTracks. I moved to Denver in 2001 and lived there until I moved 2 hours south to Pueblo in April of 2016. As such, I was witness to the evolution of a relic from a bygone era into a re-imagined hub of transportation activity.