Gateway Transportation Center

This article is about the intermodal transit center in St. Louis. For the transit center in Portland, Oregon, see Gateway Transit Center. For the future transit center in Charlotte, North Carolina, see Gateway Station (Charlotte). For the light rail station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, see Gateway station (PAAC).

The Gateway Multimodal Transportation Center, also known as Gateway Station, is a rail and bus terminal station in the Downtown West neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. Opened in 2008 and operating 24 hours a day, it serves Amtrak trains and Greyhound and Burlington Trailways interstate buses. Missouri's largest rail transportation station, it is located one block east of St. Louis Union Station.

Gateway Transportation Center St. Louis, MO
A view of the rail platform at St. Louis' Gateway Station
General information
Location	430 South 15th Street St. Louis, Missouri
Coordinates	38°37′27″N 90°12′13″W / 38.62417°N 90.20361°W / 38.62417; -90.20361
Owned by	City of Saint Louis
Platforms	2 island platforms
Tracks	4
Train operators	Amtrak
Bus stands	10
Bus operators	Amtrak Thruway Burlington Trailways Greyhound Lines Megabus
Connections	At Civic Center station: MetroLink: Red Blue MetroBus Missouri: 4, 10, 11, 19, 30, 31, 32, 40, 41, 73, 74, 94, 97, 174X^[1] Madison County Transit: 1X, 5, 14X, 16X^[2]
Construction
Parking	42 spaces
Bicycle facilities	Racks
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	Amtrak: STL
IATA code	ZSV
History
Opened	12 November 2008 (2008-11-12)
Passengers
FY 2022	293,338^[3] (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station Terminus Lincoln Service Alton toward Chicago Arcadia Valley toward Los Angeles or San Antonio Texas Eagle Kirkwood toward Kansas City Missouri River Runner Terminus
Location
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Gateway Station cost $31.4 million^[a] to build.^[5] and after more than a year of delays, it fully opened November 19, 2008. The station's unique design has won several awards, including 2009 St. Louis Construction News and Real Estate's Regional Excellence Award,^[6] 2008 Best New Building by the Riverfront Times,^[7] and the 2009 Award of Merit - Illuminating Engineering Society Illumination Awards.^[8]

Services

 

A Lincoln Service train shortly after arriving in St. Louis in 2024

Gateway Station serves as a hub for Amtrak and intercity bus service with connections to local buses and trains available at the neighboring Civic Center Transit Center.

Amtrak

Of the 13 Missouri stations served by Amtrak, St. Louis was the busiest in FY2017, seeing an average of over 1,000 passengers daily. The station is served by Amtrak's Missouri River Runner, Lincoln Service, and the Texas Eagle,^[9] with a total of 14 trains daily. All but the Texas Eagle originate or terminate at the station.

Intercity Bus

Intercity bus services are provided by Amtrak Thruway,^[10] Greyhound Lines,^[11] Burlington Trailways^[12] and Megabus.^[13]

MetroLink and MetroBus

Gateway Station is located next to the Civic Center Transit Center which serves MetroLink's Red and Blue lines and multiple MetroBus lines. It takes about 30 minutes to travel to St. Louis Lambert International Airport via the Red Line.

Previous Amtrak facilities in St. Louis

Created in 1971, Amtrak originally operated from St. Louis Union Station. However, when it became apparent that there were no longer enough trains serving St. Louis to justify the use of such a large facility, Union Station was abandoned in November 1978. Amtrak then moved to a modular structure two blocks east, at 550 S. 16th St; the new station was originally approved on a site west of Union Station in 1976, with a budget of $6.4 million.^[b][14] Intended for temporary use, this station—soon dubbed "Amshack"—remained in service for 26 years, even after Union Station reopened and long past the end of its useful life.^[15] On December 20, 2004, Amtrak moved across the street to 551 South 16th Street, a 4,000-square-foot (370 m²) masonry and steel "interim" structure built at an estimated cost of $600,000.^[c] The building now houses Amtrak operating and mechanical crews.^[16]

See also

•  Missouri portal

• List of Amtrak stations
• List of intercity bus stops in Missouri

Footnotes

1. equivalent to $44.4 million in 2023^[4]
2. equivalent to $34.3 million in 2023^[4]
3. equivalent to $967,865 in 2023^[4]

References

1. "Missouri System Map" (PDF) (Map). Metro Transit. November 2019. Retrieved May 26, 2023.
2. "System Map" (PDF) (Map). Madison County Transit. August 15, 2021. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
3. "Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2022: State of Missouri" (PDF). Amtrak. June 2023. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
4. 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved February 29, 2024.
5. . United States Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration. Archived from the original on September 20, 2008. Retrieved August 13, 2008.
6. Finan, Thomas J. (April 23, 2009). . St. Louis Construction News and Real Estate. Archived from the original on March 22, 2010.
7. "Best New Building: Gateway Station". The Riverfront Times. September 24, 2008.
8. (PDF). Illuminating Engineering Society of North America. 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 19, 2012. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
9. (PDF). Amtrak. November 30, 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 30, 2015. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
10. "City of New Orleans, Illini and Saluki" (PDF). Amtrak. January 11, 2016. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
11. "Saint Louis Missouri Bus Station". Greyhound Lines. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
12. "Missouri". March 23, 2017.
13. . megabus.com. Archived from the original on November 4, 2014. Retrieved December 31, 2015. St Louis, MO. All megabus.com arrivals and departures in St. Louis are located at Bay #10, at the Gateway Multi-modal Transportation Center, located at 430 South 15th Street.
14. "St. Louis to get new Amtrak station". The Pantagraph. Bloomington, Illinois. Associated Press. October 28, 1976. p. C-10. Retrieved March 4, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.  
15. Riverfront Times (December 4, 2008). "Save the Amshack!". Retrieved December 28, 2008.
16. (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on November 10, 2007. Retrieved August 2, 2009.

External links

  Media related to Gateway Multimodal Transportation Center at Wikimedia Commons

• St. Louis, MO – Amtrak
• St. Louis, MO – Station history at Great American Stations (Amtrak)
• Status of Amtrak's Texas Eagle trains through St. Louis December 5, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
• Former St. Louis Amtrak Stations (USA RailGuide -- TrainWeb)