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No guesses yet so here is another hint - this building, an active Amtrak Station, was not originally built with the intention of being a passenger train station. Perhaps one more photo will help get some attempts flowing -

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It is not Durham Shanghai......... but you are very warm with that guess.

While this building was not intended to be a passenger train station, it is, however, an example of 19th century railroad infrastructure.

Probably won't help anyone with the station, but that dark blue (almost black) Jeep Patriot in the rightmost parking spot is my personal vehicle!
 
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Notelvis said:
It is not Durham Shanghai......... but you are very warm with that guess.

While this building was not intended to be a passenger train station, it is, however, an example of 19th century railroad infrastructure.

Probably won't help anyone with the station, but that dark blue (almost black) Jeep Patriot in the rightmost parking spot is my personal vehicle!
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Oh man, I'm so sorry...
 
RRRick is the winner -

This is the Amtrak Station in Burlington, NC, one stop away from Durham.

The building actually predates the Civil War (constructed between 1855-60) and was originally the locomotive repair shop for the North Carolina Railroad. Note those three big openings on the end of the building? Those were for the three tracks running through the building.

http://www.visitalamance.com/location/north-carolina-company-shops-station/
 
Here is another Amtrak dirty window video snapshot on the move. Where is this station ?
 
Have not done this for a while, so here's one. This may be a tough one (I think), but it is not really a trick. If it is not guessed in a day or so, I'll start adding hints. Heres the first hint:

This is a present day, active Amtrak stop, but the station building shown in this photo from the 1960's was demolished 46 years ago.

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Interesting....the station looks fairly new. You say it was demolished in 1968? By its styling, it couldn't have been more than ten or so years old at the time....

So this station was built and destroyed prior to Amtrak....

Amtrak did build a few station's in its early years that are not anymore, but then that would discount any of those.

I'm trying to think of places like Albany-Rennselaer that did have a '60's era station replaced, but this is not that one...

I'm afraid I'll need some more hints on this one...

Maybe it was on a route that lost passenger service at the time of its destruction, and was later restored....hmmmmm.....
 
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I think it is Williams Junction, also. Santa Fe built the new mainline that went north of Williams around 1960. The new station was only used for a passenger station for about 8 years and was later torn down. I believe the Amtrak stop was re-instated in the 90s at Williams Junction. The old Santa Fe depot in downtown Williams is now the Grand Canyon Railway station and the old mainline through town is the BNSF branch to Phoenix.
 
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I think it is Williams Junction, also. Santa Fe built the new mainline that went north of Williams around 1960. The new station was only used for a passenger station for about 8 years and was later torn down. I believe the Amtrak stop was re-instated in the 90s at Williams Junction. The old Santa Fe depot in downtown Williams is now the Grand Canyon Railway station and the old mainline through town is the BNSF branch to Phoenix.
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That is correct!

Back in 1963, I traveled with my family cross-country by rail (train arrangements planned by me at age 15). Williams Junction was our stop for the bus up to Grand Canyon. What a great little station it was. It was built when the Santa Fe constructed a line relocation in 1959 that moved the east-west mainline out of the town of Williams. The Santa Fe then ran one train a day from the Junction to and from the Canyon. That train did not connect to our train, thus the bus. When the Canyon train was stopped in 1968, Williams Junction was eliminated as an east-west stop, and the station was leveled. The concrete slab that formed the foundation of that station is all that remains today.

A still detailed memory I have of Williams Junction occurred while we were waiting for our eastbound train - the El Capitain - to arrive. A westbound freight, led by classic Santa Fe warbonnets, came in and stopped. My brother and I walked up to check out the locomotives. The engineer saw us, leaned out, and asked if we wanted to come up and have a look around the cab. Holy cow! We climbed up, and he gave us the grand tour. What an experience. It was probably something that was second nature to him. I suspect he never thought that he just made a lifetime memory for two kids on a trip. For that reason, and also the fact that I had my first ever Dr Pepper there, that old Williams Junction station is special to me.

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