The depot isn’t currently open to the public and is used for chartered train transfers of visitors to cruise ship docks in Whittier and Seward. While the depot is a familiar sight from the arrival and departure decks of the airport, most locals haven’t been inside - unless you’ve attended a wedding or corporate event there.īill Sheffield Alaska Railroad Depot at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport on Thursday, June 23, 2022. The station, a colorful beacon that mirrors the spectacular patterns of glimmering lights in the sky, celebrates the wonders of nature,” the AIArchitect wrote of the building in 2004, a couple years after it opened. “Passengers and visitors arriving in Anchorage by air and sea are greeted by a warm glow coming from an icy backdrop appearing from a distance. Simulated northern lights greet travelers near the Bill Sheffield Alaska Railroad Depot at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport on June 23. The design won a prestigious architecture citation. The facility itself is a state-of-the-art, 24,000-square-foot building linked to the airport by a tunnel with glimmering LED-light displays meant to evoke the aurora borealis. Grand plans for use of the depot have never quite materialized. At its grand opening at the end of 2002, Stevens called the facility “years ahead of its time.”
Ted Stevens, then at the pinnacle of his influence in Congress. The Bill Sheffield Alaska Railroad Depot cost $28 million to build back in the early 2000s using federal money secured by the late U.S. Question: What’s the deal with the train station at the Anchorage airport? Does anyone use it?Īlaska’s busiest airport has a railroad station attached to it, just a tunnel away from the terminal of Anchorage’s Ted Stevens International Airport.
What do you want to know or want us to investigate about life in Alaska, stories behind the news or why things are the way they are? Let us know in the form at the bottom of the story. (Bill Roth / ADN)Ĭurious Alaska is an ongoing feature powered by your questions. Cruise ship passengers from Seward arrive at the Bill Sheffield Alaska Railroad Depot at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport on June 23.
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