The Jackson Amtrak station is a single-storey granite and red-brick building on Michigan Avenue, with a long platform canopy and a square clock tower. It is still in regular use — three Amtrak Wolverine trains in each direction stop here every day — and the waiting room retains much of its original woodwork.
The station is a National Historic Landmark. A small heritage display in the lobby covers the history of the Michigan Central Railroad in Jackson, including the founding of the company's shops here in 1842.