CAPACITY FOR ADDITIONAL TRAINS. The new Sturtevant for Racine station will soon be able to receive passengers. The building design honors the witch-hat and characteristic Milwaukee Road portico of its predecessor about 2 miles to the south, but its siting clearly illustrates the new function of a train station as automated ticket office and visitor center. It can be set well back from the tracks, less likely to be clobbered in a derailment, as there is no longer need for a station agent to hand up orders and Morse the OS to the DS. But that means passengers have to trudge from the station to the bus shelters to await their trains.


This does not appear to be a tribute to London's Tower Bridge, although the height and safety bracing on the cross-track section are worthy of the Northeast Corridor where the high voltage is just below. Any bets on how long the ADA-compliant elevators will hold up?


I'm not sure I see the logic of this overbridge. Highway 20 is not too far north of the platform ends; pedestrian ramps to a sidewalk along 20 and through the underpass would be as accessible. There are neither ramps nor grading for same in view, and the finished station will likely have a hairpin fence to prevent unauthorized crossing of the tracks. Like Mitchell Field, Sturtevant is neither a staffed station nor does it accept checked baggage or dogs (to use the old locutions.)