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The back of Union Station with a Adirondack Scenic Railroad train approaching. |
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| Address | 321 Main Street Utica, NY 13501 |
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| Connections | CENTRO of Oneida, Greyhound, Birnie Bus Services, Utica-Rome Bus Company, Adirondack Trailways, Chenango Valley Bus Company | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parking | Yes; free | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Baggage check | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1914 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1978 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Code | UCA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Oneida County | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2011) | 63,673[1] 4.2% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Boehlert Center at Union Station is a train station served by Amtrak and the Adirondack Scenic Railroad in Utica, New York. It is owned by Oneida County, and named for retired U.S. Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, R-New Hartford.
The station was built with the Italianate style. Inside is a restaurant and a barber shop, one of the few barber shops in a train station today. The 15,000-square-foot (1,400 m2) waiting room's 47-foot (14 m) high vaulted ceiling is supported by 34 marble columns. The station's blueprints called for the importing of columns that originally adorned Grand Central Station in New York City. Eight large benches are heated with steam pipes and vents.
At one time, the waiting room also contained three ticket windows, an information office, 15 pay telephones, a Western Union office, two shoeshine stands, a bar and grill. The Western Union Office is no longer there.
There used to be a tunnel connecting the waiting room to the platforms. Today, the platforms are connected via an aerial walkway.
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The station was built between 1912 and May 1914, replacing an older structure dating from 1869. The building was designed by New York architects Stem and Fellheimer. Construction involved the rerouting of the Mohawk River. Built as a New York Central Railroad station, in 1915 it became tenated by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad and the New York, Ontario and Western Railway as well, those two companies abandoning their structures.
The station's restoration began in 1978, but refurbishing/restoration work continues to this day.
The station sees multiple daily departures of the following trains:
A total of eight Amtrak trains use the station daily.
The Adirondack Scenic Railroad operates a heritage railway from Utica to Holland Patent, Remsen, and Old Forge on a seasonal basis.
Bus companies serving the station, one of the first intermodal facilities in the state, include the following:
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