Posted by: Mike Governale, president and co-founder of Reconnect Rochester
There hasn’t been much coverage about the progress on Rochester’s new intermodal station lately. So we thought we’d do another construction update and let you know that the project is moving along as scheduled and the new station is expected to be open and ready for passengers next summer, 2017.
Since our last update, the rickety old 1970s Amtrak station has been demo’d, bridge and tunnel work has largely been completed, and the new building is rising above the site. You can find most of these photos and information on the NYSDOT website but once again, so that you don’t have to go digging for it, here’s a look at what’s been happening…
Demolition of Old Railroad Station
Site overview
Where former station was, looking southwest.
Tracks
New Mainline 1 (M1) rail line active, existing M1 line severed to the left. Looking west. 11-4-15
CSX Holland truck, welding rail together, looking east. 11-6-15
CSX Freight Line Entering Station. 11-10-15
CSX heating, straightening and spiking the rail for Temp M2, Looking Southwest. 1-8-16
Passenger and Baggage Tunnels
Inside of tunnel looking east at ramp to high level platform. 11-10-15
Ramp from High Level Platform to Tunnel looking West. 11-18-15
High Level Platform with plastic over top, Looking West. 1-8-16
New baggage ramp with plastic on top of walls, ready to pour concrete flooring (inside high level platform) Looking West. 1-8-16
Storm Sewer
Deep excavation installing a “T” concrete Pipe into the existing storm sewer, Looking west. formerly where the rail line M2 was. 2-5-16
Deep excavation installing “T” concrete pipe into the existing storm sewer, looking southwest. The red paint edge is the new concourse tunnel. Can you spot the remnants of Rochester’s original Union Station? The brick wall to the left is the old stairway down to the existing pedestrian tunnel. 2-5-16
Deep excavation installing “T” concrete pipe into the existing storm sewer, looking east. The brick wall in the background is the existing pedestrian tunnel. The wall to the right is the old stairway down to the existing pedestrian tunnel. 2-5-16
Foundation
Foundation work on new station underway. 5-30-16
View of tunnel top, backfill, passenger tunnel with no top and Baggage ramp roof forms. 5-23-16
Site overview looking Northeast. 5-24-16
Basement South Wall (4 line wall) opening is for escalator, looking south. 5-24-16
Basement South wall (4 line wall) opening is for escalator, looking Northeast. 5-24-16
View of southern basement wall, a monolithic pour after all bar is in place. 5-23-16
Amtrak Stock pile in Front, CSX stock behind canopy, looking North. 5-24-16
South basement wall concrete pour (4 line wall) looking east. 5-26-16
Backfill of Concourse Tunnel with CSX material, looking west. 5-26-16
Removing existing tunnel roof steel, looking northeast. 5-26-16
Concrete pour of south basement wall (4 line) looking north. 5-26-16
Under Slab backfill of new station basement floor slab. 6-17-16
Under Slab backfill of new station basement floor slab. 6-17-16
Framework
View of baggage ramp looking east from under canopy. 7-25-16
View of new station basement from under the baggage ramp canopy. 7-25-16
A portion of the steel frame and one of the rear arches of the station now stands near the tracks. 9-7-16
What about accessibility?
These are great pictures. How about some more recent ones?
Everything I read says the station will open “Summer of 2017”, that has come and gone. Now even the end of Summer is over (Labor day) and then the legally end of summer (Sept 21). So what’s up 🙂 We are planning a trip with our grand kids for Columbus day weekend and was really hoping it would be open.