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To this 'old-timer', any railroad station built after World War II is a "new station", so I was trying to remember which are the last stations built prior to Amtrak day....I am not including rebuilds like CHI or NYP......

My first guess would be Milwaukee, Wi. I believe it was built around 1967, and certainly one of the last 'major city' stations built....

Albany-Rensselaer was also built around that time. Any others come to mind?

I believe New Orleans, built in 1954, was probably the last large scale staion built in that era....
 
I would like to know the oldest station that is still a passenger station that still retains its same basic architecture.
 
Many stations in the south were built after World War II but prior to Amtrak: New Orleans, Mobile, Birmingham (two, if you count the small Southern station that replaced Terminal Station), Charlotte, Raleigh, Charleston, Savannah, St Petersburg (two), Petersburg Va., Waycross (the Oklahoma Avenue depot), Quantico, Miami (FEC), Ft Lauderdale (FEC), St Augustine (FEC), Cocoa-Rockledge (FEC), Lakeland, Yemassee. Could be more, particularly in Florida.

In use by Amtrak from that era: New Orleans, Charlotte, Raleigh (expanded), Charleston, Savannah, Petersburg, Quantico, and Yemassee (although renovated with extreme prejudice).

Post-Amtrak there are Richmond (Staples Mill Road), Miami/Hialeah, Jacksonville, Columbia, Florence, Durham, Kannapolis, Cary, Burlington, Newport News, the two Auto-Train terminals... and soon-to-be (we hope) Charlotte, Norfolk, Raleigh, and Atlanta.
 
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VentureForth said:
I would like to know the oldest station that is still a passenger station that still retains its same basic architecture.
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I don't recall how old WIL is but they have maintained it's basic structure pretty much. Though some of the interior was modernized with the last renovations :(
 
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I would like to know the oldest station that is still a passenger station that still retains its same basic architecture.
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While not an Amtrak station, Santa Clara, CA is a CalTrain station and so is a rail passenger station. It was built in 1863 and is fairly untouched except for maintenance. It is the oldest station in California.

Oops, it turns out the Capitol Corridor trains started stopping there last year, so it is an Amtrak stop.
 
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Probably the oldest in-use station is Martinsburg. As to the newest non-Amtrak station in use, arguably NYP is a contender for that title. WPK is another candidate, too.
 
Don't forget Delray Beach, constructed in the 1990s by FDOT to replace the former SAL depot that was just north of the present Tri-Rail station location. This is kind of a stretch to the topic, since Delray Beach is a Tri-Rail station just used by Amtrak as an unstaffed station location.

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Many stations in the south were built after World War II but prior to Amtrak: New Orleans, Mobile, Birmingham (two, if you count the small Southern station that replaced Terminal Station), Charlotte, Raleigh, Charleston, Savannah, St Petersburg (two), Petersburg Va., Waycross (the Oklahoma Avenue depot), Quantico, Miami (FEC), Ft Lauderdale (FEC), St Augustine (FEC), Cocoa-Rockledge (FEC), Lakeland, Yemassee. Could be more, particularly in Florida.
In use by Amtrak from that era: New Orleans, Charlotte, Raleigh (expanded), Charleston, Savannah, Petersburg, Quantico, and Yemassee (although renovated with extreme prejudice).

Post-Amtrak there are Richmond (Staples Mill Road), Miami/Hialeah, Jacksonville, Columbia, Florence, Durham, Kannapolis, Cary, Burlington, Newport News, the two Auto-Train terminals... and soon-to-be (we hope) Charlotte, Norfolk, Raleigh, and Atlanta.
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Maybe add LNK to the post-Amtrak list - opened as new last June.
 
The Santa Fe replaced the old Topeka, KS Harvey House in the 1950's with the non-descript station that Amtrak still uses.

However, the grandest station in town is the former UP station--fully restored and now a museum and a great place to watch passing UP freights.
 
Portland Oregon's Union Station was opened by the NP, GN, UP & SP in 1896. Remodeled in 1928 and fully restored in the 1990s. (it also has the dubious honor of being the only AMTRAK station to have a sturgeon caught from the boarding platforms)
 
While it might not be the newest, I believe that the Toledo Ohio station built in 1950 was likely the largest completely new station build before the start of Amtrak. I believe it had around 155 scheduled trains a day.
 
Thanks to the many responses to this thread. As far as the newest pre-Amtrak stations--it looks like it turns out to be what I kind of figured.....that is, the last new stations were built mainly by the railroads of that era that still seemed to have some pride in their passenger train operation--most notably the Seaboard Coast Line, and the Santa Fe. The Milwaukee station was shared by the mostly pro-passenger MILW, but also the questionable C&NW, although the North Western did run a fine commuter operation

And the motivation for the Albany-Rensselaer station was to get out of the old large Albany station, in the case of the NYC/PC....
 
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Does the "new & improved" Pennsylvania Station count (1963)?
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I didn't intend counting it nor Chicago Union Station, as they were just modified from the original--both very negatively, as we all know....at least Chicago retained half of the original, while New York only retained platforms and stairways, for the most part.
 
Los Angeles Union Station is often called the "Last of the Great Railway Stations" built in the United States. It was built in May 1939 so it's certainly not the last station built before A-day... but definitely one of the last built on a grand scale.

Also thanks to a lot of apathy by the stations owners and the City of LA from the 1960's until the early 1990's the station never had any "improvements" other stations (like NY's Penn Station) and has remained mostly unchanged. But that's about to change as LA Metro prepares to spend millions to refurbish the station, while hopefully keeping its historical character intact.
 
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I would like to know the oldest station that is still a passenger station that still retains its same basic architecture.
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Jackson, Michigan is essentially the same basic architecture as it was built ca. 1870's.
 
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