WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITES TRAIN STATION OF ALL TIMES.

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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The First Train Station Built West of St. Louis…KIRKWOOD MISSOURI!

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I’ll cast a vote for Dearborn Station, Chicago. It was a bit small and not architecturally distinguished, but it served a wide variety of trains ranging from the Super Chief down to C&WI’s Dolton suburban locals (RS1’s and Stillwell coaches). It was also easily viewed from the Roosevelt Road overpass.

To shrek623: Kaneville was served by the Chicago, Aurora & DeKalb, which operated very briefly between Aurora and DeKalb. It connected in Aurora with the CA&E.

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Chicago: CUS
Indianapolis-Union Station
St Louis-Union Station
Edwardsville, Il. (2) Old Wabash Station, and Old ITC station-latter still stands, but is an insurance office/hair salon complex, but if you know what you are looking for and at, the IT trains are just down the tracks.

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To CSS- Thanks for the clarification, I wasn’t sure if it was CA&E but I knew it was CA something and that was the one that came to mind being it was the prominent interurban in the area at that time. Thanks again

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Big station: Grand Central station, New York City.
Little station: Flagstaff, Arizona- one of the best places to watch trains from!

Erik

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The abandoned Buffalo Central Terminal in Buffalo, NY. The station “too far, too late”. My dad took me there as a kid just before it was closed. It was a beautiful building.

http://www.buffalocentralterminal.com/

Tom

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Jersey Central’s Jersey City Terminal.

Restored and now part of Liberty State Park.

http://www.cnjfestival.com/

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illinoic central grand station chicago, union station wash.d.c.,ill cent decatur,ill, ill central ft.dodge ia, and many more more.GOD BLESS

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  1. N&W Passenger Terminal Roanoke, VA 2. Kemper St. Station Lynchburg, VA
    3 Washington Union Station
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Durand Union Station in Durand, Michigan

Built in 1903 and stands preserved today as the Michigan Railroad Museum.

It served the Grand Trunk Western and Ann Arbor Railroads.

You may read about it at: http://www.durandstation.org

It has wonderful charm, railroad archive, gift shop, displays, and sits at the diamond of CN and Michigan Central. A wonderful place to meet fellow railfans.

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Randolph street station on the old South Shore line, Tamms Ill.
Randy

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  1. Los Angeles Union Station (or whatever it’s called nowadays). I visited it twice in the mid 1980s. Once was on a bus, and the second time was comming into the station on an Amtrak train, and leaving on one of Amtrak’s San Diegans the same day. I love the design of the station, as it hearkens back to a simpler time. [:)][:)]
  2. The Rio Grande station in Salt Lake City. Cool design, but the tracks behind the station are gone, and the building’s used as a museum. [:(]
  3. Ogden Union Station. Another great looking station. The tracks are still behind it, and the station has several museums and restaurants in it, plus a couple of gift shops, a hobby store, and of course an outdoor museum with a gas turbine loco, a UP 4-8-4, SP SD45, Santa Fe RSD15, and other assorted cars and locomotives. [8D]
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I like the NJT Mt OIive station, you can get some good photos there.

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One of the most intriguing: the Santa Fe passenger depot, Dodge City, KS. Built, 1898; restoration completed, 2003. Largest still in use in KS.

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1.Chicago Union Station
2.For train watching:Vancouver WA.
3.Old C&NW station,Chicago
4.ATSF station, Pico Rivera,CA.
I hung out here a lot when I was in high school.
(This station is now gone).

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Cris Helt,
Yes it’s still Los Angeles Union Station (formerly Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal). It is now a lot busier with Metrolink trains, MTA Gold Line (tracks 1 & 2), and the MTA Red Line (entrance to subway)
The Rio Grande station in Salt Lake includes a bar and grill (at least it did in 2002)

espeefoamer,
I’ve been to Pico Rivera many times…was the station at the Passons St. crossing? The palm trees make it “look like” a station was there.

My favorites:

  1. San Diego, CA Santa Fe station (still looks like “the old days” with Santa Fe heralds in many locations around the interior/exterior
  2. San Bernardino, CA station (just re-dedicated last month wit 3751 in attendance). This was the main-line station closest to home during the early-railfan years

MP

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…Must add another one: Small town, Ligonier, in western Pennsylvania had the Ligonier Valley Railroad and they had a beautiful white stone depot that was 2-stories and contained the railroad general offices on 2nd floor and passenger terminal facilities first floor…Building still exists and still has the long train shed along the back side where the train stopped. Building is used by area school with office space. Building was unusually hansom for such a small railroad and town.

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Another one to add to my list:
Prince,WVa;Art Deco,with the “Chessie” emblem in ‘mosaic’ on the floor.[:)]

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eloadude:

The “other” railroad at Pontiac was Wabash coming over to Streator from the southeast…(Although Illinois Central’s branchline on the Middle Division made appearances and left early, MInonk to Pontiac to Saxony) TP& W runs south of Pontiac (Wabash connected to the TP&W just west of Fairbury…
http://www.livgenmi.com/1895/IL/County/livingston.htm

I nominate WINTON PLACE station (B&O built in 1878 / PRR) in Cincinnati (moved, to a heritage park in Sharon Woods and ought to be painted red IMHO, how I remember it - my earliest railroad memories involve that depot and a Baldwin Centipede on PRR)
http://www.heritagevillagecincinnati.org/buildings/chesterpark.htm

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I just came back from New Jersey. I have not seen the Lackawanna Station since the early 1990’s. You feel like you are stepping into the 1940’s. Great job of restoring the station.