Railway History
Originally called the Union Station, it was jointly constructed by the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad and the Oregon Short Line, both later wholly owned by the Union Pacific, at an estimated cost of $450,000. The platforms behind the station ran north-to-south, parallel to the first mainline built in the Salt Lake Valley (which predated the station building). South of 1300 South this is the route now used by the UTA TRAX Blue Line and Salt Lake City Southern, while north of North Temple (100 North) it is the route used by the UTA FrontRunner line and Union Pacific. Trains from the west used a line south of 900 South in Glendale as an approach route to the north-to-south platforms. The Salt Lake and Ogden (Bamberger) Interurban line also stopped very nearby. When Amtrak was formed in 1971, it took over the remaining passenger services at the station, but after Rio Grande joined Amtrak, all trains were moved to use its former station three blocks south.
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