Northbound Vermonter departs Hartford, Conn., 2015.
Color digital image showing the northbound Vermonter (Washington-St. Albans, Vt.) pulling out of the Hartford, Conn., station; image dates to September 2015.
- Digital Image Details
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- Date Archived:
- November 20, 2015
- Geography:
- Northeast
- Decade:
- 2010s
- Data Format:
- Image
- Route:
- Vermonter
- Date Created:
- September 18, 2015
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Completed in 1889, Hartford Union Station acts as downtown’s western boundary and is the visual transition point between the central business district and the residential neighborhood of Asylum Hill. Local architect George Keller conceived of a plan to elevate the tracks over downtown thoroughfares and construct a modern passenger rail facility to the side. The actual design contract for the Richardsonian Romanesque style depot was awarded to the well-known Boston firm of Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge.
A stop on the Springfield Line, Hartford is well connected to the busy Northeast Corridor spine. Amtrak trains and intercity and regional buses do not occupy space in the historic station, which was renovated in the mid-1980s to accommodate retail and office use. Instead, they operate out of an addition that was constructed immediately west of the building underneath the viaduct that carries the tracks through downtown.
The Vermonter is financed primarily through funds made available by the Vermont Agency of Transportation, the Connecticut Department of Transportation and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.
Photographer: Chuck Gomez for Amtrak. From the Amtrak Corporate Collection.
