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The Salt Lake City Amtrak Station is currently a total mess. Amtrak is basically the first tenant in a major constructoin project. Moving in soon is the light rail and the new Commuter Rail line to Ogden. A conductor referred to the station as a disaster in the middle of a huge construction project. The station building is small and temporary looking. A construction sight walkway separates it from the station platform. That is the biggest disaster. The city of Salt Lake who built the new station and platform decided to build a mini-high level platform. The platform is at the height of the Superliner cars, but it doesn't go all the way to track level and up against the train doors, there is a six-inch if not more gab between the train and the platform.
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| (salt_lake_city1) A view from the station platform of the very modular Amtrak Station building at Salt Lake City. Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 22 March, 2008 | (salt_lake_city2) Another view of the station building with an old Amtrak sign with the old 'pointless arrow' logo. It's nicely illuminated. Both the westbound and eastbound Zephyr stop at Salt Lake in the middle of the night. Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 22 March, 2008 | (salt_lake_city3) Orange construction barricades. The current state of the Salt Lake City station, in it's a construction site that will one day become decent developments. Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 22 March, 2008 | (salt_lake_city4) Looking down the second track on the new concrete platform at Salt Lake City. People wait to be allowed to board an hour late Eastbound to Chicago California Zephyr at 6AM. Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 22 March, 2008 |  |  |  |
| (salt_lake_city5) Passengers wait in the center of the very narrow concrete platform at Salt Lake City. Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 22 March, 2008 | (salt_lake_city6) A view of the last coach of the California Zephyr with passengers trying to board it. Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 22 March, 2008 | (salt_lake_city7) There is one problem with the high level platform at Salt Lake City, they somehow left a six inch gab between the train and the platform. Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 22 March, 2008 |
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