Grand Junction station

Grand Junction, CO
The current station at Grand Junction
General information
Location339 South 1st Street
Grand Junction, Colorado[1]
United States
Coordinates39°03′53″N 108°34′14″W / 39.0646°N 108.5705°W / 39.0646; -108.5705
Owned byUnion Pacific Railroad & Pufferbelly, Inc.[2]
Line(s)Glenwood Springs Subdivision
Platforms1 side platform
1 island platform
Tracks3
ConnectionsBus transport Grand Valley Transit: 11
Construction
Structure typeAt-grade
Parking5 short term spaces[1]
AccessibleYes
Other information
Station codeAmtrak: GJT
Passengers
FY 202324,628[3] (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station
Green River
toward Emeryville
California Zephyr Glenwood Springs
toward Chicago
Former services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station
Thompson
(closed 1997)
toward Emeryville
California Zephyr Glenwood Springs
toward Chicago
Thompson Desert Wind
Thompson
toward Seattle
Pioneer
Before 1991 reroute
Preceding station Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Following station
Fruita
toward Ogden
Moffat Tunnel Route Palisade
toward Denver
Royal Gorge Route
Thompson Springs
toward Oakland
California Zephyr Glenwood Springs
toward Chicago
Location
Map

Grand Junction station is a train station in Grand Junction, Colorado, United States, that is served by Amtrak's California Zephyr, which runs once daily between Chicago and Emeryville, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.[Note 1]

The station interior in June 2021

The station is adjacent to the original Denver and Rio Grande Depot. The original depot was built in 1906 and replaced by the current adjacent structure in 1992.[2] 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) 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.

  1. ^ a b "Grand Junction, CO (GJT)". Amtrak. Archived from the original on January 9, 2014. Retrieved January 8, 2014.
  2. ^ a b "Grand Junction, CO (GJT)". Great American Stations. Amtrak. Archived from the original on April 20, 2012. Retrieved January 8, 2014.
  3. ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2023: State of Colorado" (PDF). Amtrak. March 2024. Retrieved June 26, 2024.
  4. ^ "California Zephyr" (PDF). Amtrak. January 13, 2014. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 4, 2014. Retrieved January 8, 2014.


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