Union Depot (El Paso)

El Paso Union Depot
Station statistics
Address 700 San Francisco Street
El Paso, TX 79901
Lines
  Sunset Limited
  Texas Eagle
Platforms 1 side platform
Tracks 1
Parking Yes
Other information
Opened 1906
Rebuilt 1982
Accessible
Code ELP
Owned by City of El Paso
Traffic
Passengers (2011) 11,470[1]  10%
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station
Sunset Limited
Texas Eagle
toward Chicago
    Former services    
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
Canutillo
 El Paso Branch Terminus
El Paso Union Passenger Depot
Location: El Paso, Texas, US
Built: 1906
Architect: Daniel Burnham
Architectural style: Classical Revival, Other
Governing body: City of El Paso, Private
NRHP Reference#: 75001970
Added to NRHP: 1971

The El Paso Union Depot, also known as El Paso Union Passenger Depot, was designed by architect Daniel Burnham, who also designed Washington D.C. Union Station. It was built between 1905 and 1906 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

Currently served by Amtrak's Texas Eagle and Sunset Limited. El Paso City buses stop nearby. There has been intermittent talk of resurrecting streetcar service across the border to Ciudad Juarez since the last trolley rolled some thirty years ago.

Of the 19 Texas stations served by Amtrak, El Paso was the eighth-busiest in FY2010, boarding or detraining an average of approximately 30 passengers daily.[2]

References

  1. ^ "El Paso, TX (ELP)". Great American Stations. http://www.greatamericanstations.com/Stations/ELP. Retrieved 18 November 2011. 
  2. ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2010, State of Texas" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2010. http://www.amtrak.com/pdf/factsheets/TEXAS10.pdf. Retrieved 2011-01-06. 

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