Santa Fe Railway Station, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

 Above is a really bad photograph of the 1934 vintage Santa Fe Railway station in Oklahoma City.

The art deco station served the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway from its construction and then came to serve Amtrak later on.  Amtrak service was discontinued in 1979, but it was resumed in 1998. The station also serves the Oklahoma City Streetcar service.

Union Station, Denver Colorado

Union Station as viewed from in front of Denver's Oxford Hotel.

 

This is Denver's Union Station.  This large railroad station was built in 1914 and was called Union Station as a predecessor station connected  the Union Pacific, the Denver & Rio Grande Western, the Denver, South Park & Pacific, and the Colorado Central.  This 1914 terminal connected the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe, the Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy, the Chicago, Rock Island, & Pacific, the Colorado & Southern, the Union Pacific, and the Denver & Rio Grande Western.  The new 1914 station incorporated part of the previous 1881 depot.  Today the station serves Amtrak and Denver's local RTD area commuter rail.

Construction is ongoing at the terminal as RTD is expanding and a substantial hotel is being added to the terminal.

I recently was in downtown Denver and had the opportunity to take some additional photographs of the now rebuilt station.  It's pretty impressive.

 

Quite impressive and very well done.

Railroad scenes, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Former Santa Fe Depot, Santa Fe New Mexico, now Tomasitas.

These photographs depict the historic Santa Fe stationhouse in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which is now Tomisitas, a very good northern New Mexico restaurant.  These photographs are admittedly unusual for htis blog, as they depict he interior, and its exterior solar panels. The depot depicted in the bottom photograph is the current depot.

The mariachi band is Mariachi Buenaventura, a very good all female mariachi band.

While not obvious from these photographs, when viewing the interior, it is obvious that it was once a stationhouse.