Does Amtrak use the modern terminal building or still that prefab looking station off to the side?
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Per Google Earth it looks like a modern smaller building.....kinda looks like a commuter station also. No personal experience but what's on the net.
You might get a more informed answer from the forums at Amtrak Unlimited (subforum "Amtrak Rail Discussion").
They're not an official site, but there are plenty of knowledgeable regulars there (and you can post your question as a guest without signing up an account)
---PCJ
I was there this summer its a small building that stands alone, clean and well lit.
It's the smaller prefab building, The modern building is mostly buses and is kind of sketchy. In between the AMTRAK station and the Bus Station is the stop for Utah Transits TRAX (Light Rail throughout the valley) and FrontRunner (Commuter rail from Ogden to Provo)
Are you in town? I am up in Ogden. We have a great rail museum up here and Frontrunner will drop you off just a couple hundred years away from it
Wish I was in Salt Lake. Always wanted to check it out. But I was just looking around Google at some various train stations that have been rebuilt. Denver Union Station looks to be the most impressive effort yet for a non major terminal.
Utah (as typical for this state for most non-LDS releated old buildings) have not put much into preserving the old stations. Brigham City has a old wooden station still in decent shape and has a museum and gift shop. Ogden Union Station is probably the nicest large station left in Utah. The Salt Lake Union Station is now part of the Gateway Mall and is a night club. Not sure what the SLC Rio Grande Station is doing, think it's just offices
My favorite station out this way is the Caliente NV station. It's now city office but was a active station until they discontinued the Desert Wind back in the 90's
