Structure type At-grade | Tracks 3 Phone +1 800-872-7245 Platforms in use 1 | |
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Location 339 South 1st StreetGrand Junction, Colorado 81501United States Connections Grand Valley Transit: Route 11 Address 339 S 1st St, Grand Junction, CO 81501, USA Similar Glenwood Springs, Rocky Mountains, Granby, Green River, Fort Morgan station | ||
Tvrm north pole limited departing grand junction station
The Grand Junction station is a train station in Grand Junction, Colorado, that is served by Amtrak's (California Zephyr, which runs once daily between Chicago and Emeryville, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Until 1992 Amtrak used the ex-Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW) station, constructed in 1906, located next door to the current building. The current station building was built in the late 1970s and originally used as a restaurant.
Beginning in 1983, both the Desert Wind (with service from Chicago to Los Angeles) and the Pioneer (with service from Chicago to Seattle) previously stopped at the Grand Junction Station. Service by the Pioneer was dropped when that train was rerouted through Wyoming in 1991 (the train was later discontinued altogether in 1997). Service by the Desert Wind ended when Amtrak discontinued that train in 1997 (at the same time as the Pioneer was discontinued). Also in 1997, the Green River Station (in Utah) station replaced the former station in Thompson Springs, Utah, as the next station to the west.
Of the nine Colorado stations served by Amtrak, Grand Junction was the third busiest in FY2016.