Union Station and Olympic Legacy Plaza, SLC, Utah - Walking Tour - 2023

Описание: Union Station and Olympic Legacy Plaza, SLC, Utah - Walking Tour - 2023

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The plaza opened in 2001, ahead of the 2002 Winter Olympics. It features a large fountain and walls with inscriptions displaying the names of Team 2002 volunteers.[1] Go for the Gold is also installed in the plaza.

Construction of the plaza was partly funded by a "buy a brick" program.

The Salt Lake City Union Pacific Depot is a building on the western edge of downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Built in 1908–09, it dates back to the more prosperous era in the history of American railroad travel. As Salt Lake Union Pacific Railroad Station, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Originally called the Union Station, it was jointly constructed by the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad and the Oregon Short Line, both later wholly owned by the Union Pacific, at an estimated cost of $450,000 ($15,830,000 in 2022 dollars[2]). The platforms behind the station ran north-to-south, parallel to the first main line built in the Salt Lake Valley, which predated the station building. South of 1300 South this is the route used by the UTA TRAX Blue Line and Salt Lake City Southern, while north of North Temple (100 North) it is used by the FrontRunner line and Union Pacific. Trains from the west used a line south of 900 South in Glendale to approach the north-to-south platforms. The Bamberger Railroad & Salt Lake and Utah Railroad Interurban lines also stopped at their own station nearby. When Amtrak was formed in 1971, it took over the remaining passenger services at the station, but after Rio Grande joined Amtrak all trains were moved to its station three blocks south.

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