{{Short description|Amtrak station in Tucson, Arizona}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox station | style=Amtrak | name=Tucson, AZ | image=Tucson May 2019 30 (Tucson depot).jpg | image_caption= | address=400 North Toole Avenue<br />Tucson, Arizona | country = United States | coordinates = {{coord|32|13|23|N|110|58|00|W|region:US-AZ|display=inline,title}} | line = UP Gila Subdivision<!-- the physical "line" is not the same as "services" which are detailed below --> | other=Sun Tran bus<br />Sun Link streetcar | platform=1 side platform | tracks=2 | parking= | bicycle=Yes | mpassengers = {{rail pass box|system=Amtrak|passengers={{Amtrak ridership|Tucson}}{{Amtrak ridership|citationAZ}}|pass_year={{Amtrak ridership|date}}}} | opened=1907 | rebuilt=2004 | accessible=Yes | code={{Amtrak code|TUS}} | owned=City of Tucson | services= {{Adjacent stations|system1=Amtrak |line1=Sunset Limited|left1=Maricopa|right1=Benson |line2=Texas Eagle|to-left2=Los Angeles|left2=Maricopa|right2=Benson }} |other_services_header=Former services |other_services_collapsible=yes |other_services={{Adjacent stations|system1=Amtrak|line1=Sunset Limited|note-left1=''Until 1996 reroute''|left1=Tempe|right1=Benson|to-right1=Miami|line2=Texas Eagle|note-left2=''Until 1996 reroute''|left2=Tempe|right2=Benson|to-left2=Los Angeles|system3=Southern Pacific Railroad|line3=Sunset Route|left3=Picacho|right3=Benson}} | mapframe = yes | mapframe-marker-color = #{{rcr|Amtrak}} }} '''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:<ref>{{cite journal |title=Southern Pacific Lines, Tables 9,10|journal=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=88 |issue=4 |date=September 1955}}</ref> * 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.<ref name="greatamericanstations.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.greatamericanstations.com/stations/tucson-az-tus/|title=Tucson, AZ (TUS)|website=Great American Stations}}</ref> 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.<ref name="greatamericanstations.com"/> The station and other railroad buildings are included as contributing resources to the National Register-listed Tucson Warehouse Historic District.<ref name="nrhp-application">{{cite web |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration Form – Tucson Warehouse Historic District |url=https://www.tucsonaz.gov/files/preservation/TucsonWarehouseHD1999.pdf |website=City of Tucson |access-date=2023-06-07}}</ref> <ref name="warehouse-district-map">{{cite web |title=Tucson Warehouse Historic District (map) |url=https://www.tucsonaz.gov/files/preservation/TucsonWarehouseHD1999_5_Maps.pdf |website=City of Tucson |access-date=2023-06-07}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tucsonhistoricdepot.org/?page_id=16|title=At the Depot: Some history of our depot...|website= Southern Arizona Transportation Museum|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220619045918/https://tucsonhistoricdepot.org/?page_id=16|archive-date=2022-06-19 |access-date=2022-06-19|url-status=live}}</ref>
===Proposed expansion=== Tucson station is a proposed endpoint for planned train service to Phoenix.
==Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday statue== [[File:Tucson-Amtrak Station-1907-1922-2.JPG|thumb|left|The '''Tucson Depot''' is where Frank Stilwell, suspected in the murder of Morgan Earp, was killed by Wyatt Earp in the company of Doc Holliday.]] The Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday statue near the train depot commemorates the revenge killing of Frank Stilwell. On March 18, 1882, in the aftermath of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Morgan Earp was murdered by unknown killers, in Tombstone, Arizona. Two days later, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and a few other men were escorting the injured Virgil Earp and his wife to Tucson, with their final destination being California. While at the Tucson train station, Wyatt Earp learned that Frank Stilwell, one of the individuals suspected in the Morgan Earp murder, was lurking in the area. Earp, Holliday, and the others pursued Stilwell along the train tracks, eventually catching and killing him.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://tucson.com/news/local/street-smarts-few-tucsonans-saw-wyatt-earp-as-hero/article_35a38e95-44ea-59d9-8362-6adda0f41e56.html|title=Street Smarts: Few Tucsonans saw Wyatt Earp as hero|first1=David |last1=Leighton |newspaper=Arizona Daily Star |date=April 20, 2015 }}</ref> {{Clear}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category-inline|Tucson (Amtrak station)}} {{Amtrak web|TUS|Tucson, AZ}} * [http://www.texaseagle.com/stations/TUS.htm Tucson Amtrak station information] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20131010234048/http://www.tucsonhistoricdepot.org/depot.html Southern Arizona Transportation Museum] – at the Depot. * [http://archive.azrail.org/station/az/tucson/index.htm Arizona Rail Passenger Association: Tucson Depot history] * [http://www.trainweb.org/usarail/tucson.htm USA Rail Guide: "Tucson Amtrak Station & El Paso and Southwestern Railroad Depot"] – ''by Train Web''.
{{Amtrak Arizona stations}}
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