City: El Paso, TX

Category: Getting Here, Getting Around

Telephone: (915) 545-2247

Address: 700 San Francisco Ave.

Description: El Paso’s train station, Union Depot, is a beautiful historic building that is worth seeing in its own right, even if you aren’t in transit through it. Although this stately red stone building was once the region’s most bustling transport center, it is now mostly quiet: The weekly train service saw only about 9,605 rail passengers in 2008. Designed by architect Daniel H. Burnham, who also designed Washington D.C.’s Union Station, El Paso’s Union Depot opened 1906 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. Amtrak services El Paso with two railroad lines running east and west: Sunset Limited and Texas Eagle (www.amtrak.com). Service east toward Chicago goes weekly on Tues, Wed, and Sat, while service west to Los Angeles runs Sat, Sun, and Mon. Local Sun Metro buses stop nearby, and there is ample parking, both in the short term parking lot near the station, as well as long term parking, which is available at El Paso Civic Center around the block.