COLUMBUS, Ohio — It’s been 46 years since the last passenger train rolled out of Columbus. Amtrak departed the city in 1979, leaving Ohio’s largest city as the country’s biggest metro without passenger rail.

Plans for a comeback, spearheaded by the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC), have gathered federal interest and public support, but the road ahead remains long. These renderings show what an Amtrack station would like outside the Columbus Convention Center:

Renderings of Amtrack station outside Columbus Convention Center

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If every piece falls perfectly into place, “Don’t expect to jump on a train until sometime in the 2030s,” cautions MORPC. Concept renderings offer a glimpse of what a future Columbus station, possibly at th

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