The recent threads asking how long until the Denver station is done, and the update on Seattle's King St. Station got me thinking about how many of the 'larger' Amtrak stations are currently being worked on. This is what I can think of offhand:
DEN, SEA, PDX (still?), LAX, WAS, NOL, MIA, NYP (has the ceremonial first shovel been shown off?), MSP,
Is the Raleigh station in North Carolina getting work?
What am I missing?
jis just covered the upgrades for NYP. The ceremonial first shovel was long before the contracts were even put out to bid or awarded, although I don't know how much actual digging of dirt the Moynihan Phase 1 project will involve. Perhaps they should have had ceremonial first jackhammer and concrete pour?
Raleigh NC is in the planning stages for a new intermodal station complex with a high level platform. With the rapid growth in passengers at the station, there is pressure to move ahead on the new station.
The new station in Norfolk, VA is under construction at the Harbor Park location. Once it gets to three trains a day, it should be a pretty active station.
Depending on how you define major, Springfield MA is slated to restore the old station as a new intermodal center with an adjacent bus terminal. The station is funded or mostly funded, so it should move ahead in the next year or two.
There are a number of stations around the US that received HSIPR or TIGER grants for upgrades or to build a new intermodal station. The push to construct intermodal stations is going to significantly benefit Amtrak over time. Too often, the downtown station was torn down or re-purposed and Amtrak had to built a bare bones station on the outskirts of town with limited or no transit options. The intermodal stations put Amtrak, the intercity buses, local bus connections in one place. If the city is large enough, the restored/new station will provide access to the local light rail or streetcar transit system. By combining the transit systems back into 1 hub, we should also see car rental facilities or kiosks start showing up at the busier stations.
Of course, the intermodal stations are getting back to what many of the smaller to medium sized cities had at one time that was thrown away in the 1950s and 60s, a downtown train station with trolleys or streetcars providing transit access all over the city.