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The Albany – Rensselaer Rail Station is a train station in Rensselaer, New York, located 1.5 miles from downtown Albany across the Hudson River. , the station was Amtrak's tenth-busiest station〔(Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2006: New York ), Amtrak statistics, Retrieved February 10, 2008〕 and by 2010 it had become the ninth-busiest, as well as the busiest to serve a metro area with a population smaller than 2 million. It is served by many of Amtrak's northeastern routes outside of the Northeast Corridor, including the ''Lake Shore Limited'', whose Boston and New York branches meet at the station. ==History== Operated by the Capital District Transportation Authority (CDTA), the current structure was completed in September 2002 and opened on September 22, 2002.〔 It features a Coffee Beanery coffeeshop, a newsstand, and a post office. It was designed by the Schenectady architecture firm Stracher–Roth Gilmore and the New York firm Vollmer Associates, with Ryan-Biggs of Troy providing structural engineering, Sage/Engineering Associates providing MEP engineering services, Erdman Anthony of Troy providing facilities engineering, and constructed by U. W. Marx/Bovis joint venture. The intermodal station replaced two previous terminal buildings, one built in 1968 and the other in 1980.〔 The 1968 building, which is riddled with asbestos, has since been torn down to make more room for the station's parking facility, just before the entrance to the parking garage. Before 1968, trains stopped at Union Station in Albany itself. That building, located on Broadway, now houses the northeast headquarters of Bank of America (via predecessors Fleet Bank and Norstar Bank). The New York Central Railroad had plans to leave Albany, in part because Interstate 787 needed the space occupied by a rail yard, but the move took place under Penn Central's watch. Today's station was built with three tracks (a fourth was planned, but eliminated due to cost) and the station has had fewer than preferable tracks since.〔 In October 2008, it was announced that a fourth track would be built after the two previous terminal buildings were demolished; a contract for that work was assigned at the same time.〔 Design work was proceeding on the fourth track as of February 2010, but actual construction was placed on hold pending resolution of funding issues and demolition of the two terminal buildings to the north. On October 27, 2010, demolition of the two other buildings began.〔 In a December 4, 2012 press release, Amtrak indicated that installation of the fourth track would begin in 2013, with the project fully completed by the fall of 2017. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Albany–Rensselaer (Amtrak station)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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