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The neon signs on the tower went dark in March 1971, because the railroads using it, Union Pacific, Burlington Northern and Southern Pacific, were preparing to transfer all of their remaining passenger services to Amtrak. The station was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Amtrak ran a successor train, the Pioneer, on a similar route to Portland until 1997. In the years prior to Amtrak's assuming passenger operations on May 1, 1971, the Union Pacific's City of Portland ran to Portland from Chicago via Utah.

The signs read "Go by Train" on the northeast and southwest sides and "Union Station" on the northwest and southeast sides. Neon signs were added to the tower in 1948. The signature piece of the structure is the 150-foot-tall Romanesque Revival clock tower. It was built by Northern Pacific Terminal Company at a cost of $300,000 ($10.6 million in 2022 adjusted for inflation), and opened on February 14, 1896. Construction of the station began in 1890. A smaller plan was introduced by architects Van Brunt & Howe, and accepted in 1885. Had the original plan been built, the station would have been the largest train station in the world.

The initial design for the station was created in 1882 by McKim, Mead & White. The site is bound by Northwest Glisan, Hoyt, and Irving streets to the south Northwest Broadway Street and Station Way to the west Northwest Overton Street and Naito Parkway to the north and Northwest Ironside Terrace and industrial and commercial zones to the east. Union station is situated near the western bank of the Willamette River in downtown Portland's Old Town Chinatown. Greyhound vacated the facility in September 2019 in favor of a curbside pickup location nearby. Portland's former Greyhound bus terminal is the next building to the south, having moved to the building (from a location in the center of downtown) in 1985. It serves as the southern terminus for two daily Cascades trains from Vancouver, British Columbia and four daily Cascades trains from Seattle, and the northern terminus for two Cascades trains from Eugene.Īs of 2018, Union Station is the fifth-busiest Amtrak station in the Western United States (behind Los Angeles, Sacramento, Seattle and Emeryville) and the 21st busiest overall. It is also a stop for the Seattle- Los Angeles Coast Starlight, Amtrak's long-distance West Coast train. The train splits at Spokane, with one section continuing to Portland by way of the Columbia River Gorge and the other continuing to Seattle. The station is one of two western termini for the Empire Builder, Amtrak's major long-distance train to the Pacific Northwest. Located at the northern end of TriMet's transit mall, Union Station is also only a short walk to both lines of the Portland Streetcar, in the Pearl District. Union Station connects to TriMet MAX Green and Yellow Line trains at the nearby Union Station/Northwest 6th & Hoyt Street and Union Station/Northwest 5th & Glisan Street stations, as well as local bus service provided by TriMet. Union Station serves as a major intermodal transportation hub for Portland and Oregon. Amtrak, the main tenant, has a continuing lease in 2021. The city earns $200,000 a year from nearly 30 tenants. The station is owned by the city of Portland and operated by Prosper Portland, the city's urban renewal agency. To the northwest, they follow the river, passing through rail yards before crossing the river again on the Burlington Northern Railroad Bridge 5.1. Southeast of the station, the tracks make a sharp turn and cross the river on the historic Steel Bridge. It also has Amtrak's first Metropolitan Lounge on the West Coast, which is reserved for first-class sleeping car and business-class passengers. The station building contains Wilf's Restaurant & Bar on the ground level and offices on the upper floors. The station is a major transport hub for the Portland metropolitan area with connections to MAX Light Rail, the Portland Streetcar, and local and intercity bus services. It serves as an intermediate stop for Amtrak's Cascades and Coast Starlight routes and, along with King Street Station in Seattle, is one of two western termini of the Empire Builder. Portland Union Station is a train station in Portland, Oregon, United States, situated near the western shore of the Willamette River in Old Town Chinatown.