Tucson station
Amtrak station in Tucson, Arizona
Tucson station is an Amtrak train depot in Tucson, Arizona, served by six trains a week, or three per direction, by the combined Sunset Limited/Texas Eagle train.
History
The depot was built in 1907 by the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP). It was designed by the SP's architect, Daniel J. Patterson, who designed a number of depots during the same era, including the San Antonio Station.
Passenger services
In the mid-20th century, into the latter 1950s, four trains a day departed west and four trains a day went east:
Departing west toward Los Angeles Union Station via Yuma in the morning:
Argonaut (bypassed Phoenix to the south) (to ca. 1957)
Sunset Limited (passed through Phoenix) (continues to operate today)
Departing west toward Los Angeles Union Station via Phoenix and Yuma in the mid-afternoon and the evening:
Imperial (to 1958)
Golden State (to 1968)
Departing east toward Chicago's LaSalle Street Station via the Golden State Route in the midnight hours:
Imperial
Golden State
Departing east toward New Orleans Union Station via the Sunset Route and Houston in the daylight morning hours:
Sunset Limited
Argonaut
Recent decades
In 1998, the City purchased the entire depot property from the Union Pacific Railroad, which had absorbed the SP. Restoration of the main depot building and the three adjacent buildings, to their 1941 modernized Spanish Colonial Revival architectural style, was completed in 2004. Spanish Colonial Revival elements include the stuccoed brick walls, red clay roof tiles, and colorful, decorative tilework in the waiting room. The station and other railroad buildings are included as contributing resources to the National Register-listed Tucson Warehouse Historic District.
The Old Pueblo Trolley extended their historic streetcar line to the depot in 2009. Sun Link assumed operation of the line on July 25, 2014.
The Southern Arizona Transportation Museum is located in the old Records Vault building.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Tucson station” as amtrak station in Tucson, Arizona. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as amtrak station in Tucson, Arizona. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7851141. Authority coordinates are 32.223, -110.967. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1907, 1957, 1958 and 1968.
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This entry incorporates text from “Tucson station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.