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The interior of the old Union Station, in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The station opened in 1900, but closed in 1979. It was converted into a fancy hotel and reopened a few years later.
The Dent Branch at one time ran from Commerce City to LaSalle, CO. I remember riding behind UP 8444 on a steam excursion on this line in the 1980's. My 1995 UP System Timetable calls this the Boulder Branch and it went as far as the Valmont Power Plant on the outskirts of Boulder. Today, RTD runs heavy rail commuter trains on this their "N Line".
My spring set taken the last weekend of April (too wet to farm). These are from the Titonka and Union Slough area. Enjoy.
Union Pacific pair, 7385 (AC45CCTE) and 2749 (SD40M-2) lead an impressive length of containers through the intersection adjacent to Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Continuing my historic breweries trek, this is what remains of the Union Brewing Co. which was active from 1893 to 1911, located in the Boston neighborhood of Roxbury. Today it houses offices.
Fue inaugurado en 1853 por el corregidor José María Palomo. Fue reconstruida en 1979 y se conserva hasta la fecha.
March 11, 2023: Union Station in downtown Los Angeles. Opened in May 1939, Union Station consolated the Los Angeles operations of the Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, and Santa Fe railroads into one terminal. The "Last of the Great Railroad Stations" building saw heavy use during World War II. But in the 1950s, air and auto travel competition significantly reduced the public's use of Union Station.
Union Trust Building. 501 Grant Street, Pittsburgh
According to Wikipedia, the building was originally called the Union Arcade when developed by Pittsburgh's very own coal and steel magnate Henry Clay Frick in 1916. In 1923, the Union Trust Company bought the building and remodelled the lower four floors, removing the 240 shops that formed the "arcade" of the commercial high-rise.
The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
As the sun starts to fall closer to the horizon, NS 66E charges through the cut in Union Furnace, PA.
Mid West Road Trip USA 2012
Union Pacific steam locomotive 844 powers over Southwest Drive Crossing, Cheyenne, Wyoming 20th September 2012.
The Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, originally Cincinnati Union Terminal, is a mixed-use complex in the Queensgate neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Once a major passenger train station, it went into sharp decline during the postwar decline of railroad travel. Most of the building was converted to other uses, and now houses museums, theaters, and a library, as well as special travelling exhibitions. Since 1991, it has been used as a train station once again.
Built in 1933, it is a monumental example of Art Deco architecture, for which it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1977.
Cincinnati was a major center of railroad traffic in the late 19th and early 20th century, especially as an interchange point between railroads serving the Northeastern and Midwestern states with railroads serving the South. However, intercity passenger traffic was split among no fewer than five stations in Downtown Cincinnati, requiring the many travelers who changed between railroads to navigate local transit themselves. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad, which operated through sleepers with other railroads, was forced to split its operations between two stations. Proposals to construct a union station began as early as the 1890s, and a committee of railroad executives formed in 1912 to begin formal studies on the subject, but a final agreement between all seven railroads that served Cincinnati and the city itself would not come until 1928, after intense lobbying and negotiations, led by Philip Carey Company president George Crabbs. The seven railroads: the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad; the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway; the Louisville and Nashville Railroad; the Norfolk and Western Railway; the Pennsylvania Railroad; and the Southern Railway selected a site for their new station in the West End, near the Mill Creek.
The principal architects of the massive building were Alfred T. Fellheimer and Steward Wagner, with architects Paul Philippe Cret and Roland Wank brought in as design consultants; Cret is often credited as the building's architect, as he was responsible for the building's signature Art Deco style. The Rotunda features the largest semi-dome in the western hemisphere, measuring 180 feet (55 m) wide and 106 feet (32 m) high.
The Union Terminal Company was created to build the terminal, railroad lines in and out, and other related transportation improvements. Construction in 1928 with the regrading of the east flood plain of the Mill Creek to a point nearly level with the surrounding city, a massive effort that required 5.5 million cubic yards of landfill. Other improvements included the construction of grade separated viaducts over the Mill Creek and the railroad approaches to Union Terminal. The new viaducts the Union Terminal Company created to cross the Mill Creek valley ranged from the well built, like the Western Hills Viaduct, to the more hastily constructed and shabby, like the Waldvogel Viaduct. Construction on the terminal building itself began in 1931, with Cincinnati mayor Russell Wilson laying the mortar for the cornerstone. Construction was finished ahead of schedule, although the terminal welcomed its first trains even earlier on March 19, 1933 when it was forced into emergency operation due to flooding of the Ohio River. The official opening of the station was on March 31, 1933. The total cost of the project was $41.5 million.
During its heyday as a passenger rail facility, Cincinnati Union Terminal had a capacity of 216 trains per day, 108 in and 108 out. Three concentric lanes of traffic were included in the design of the building, underneath the main rotunda of the building: one for taxis, one for buses, and one (although never used) for streetcars. However, the time period in which the terminal was built was one of decline for train travel. By 1939, local newspapers were already describing the station as a white elephant. While it had a brief revival in the 1940s, because of World War II, it declined in use through the 1950s into the 1960s.
After the creation of Amtrak in 1971, train service at Cincinnati Union Terminal was reduced to just two trains a day, the George Washington and the James Whitcomb Riley. Amtrak abandoned Cincinnati Union Terminal the next year, opening a smaller station elsewhere in the city on October 29, 1972.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Museum_Center_at_Union_T...
UP's 4014 Big Boy made a literal station stop on its Midwest tour at St. Paul's Union Depot during its near-week race across Minnesota.
Crowds were in the thousands to witness history in the making. Despite this, the clouds and crowds thinned (although VERY briefly) to allow a few photos without people in the way.
Union Level, an abandoned town in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, has had its ups and downs. It began as a commercial district and post office in the 1830s, when a stage coach line came to town. A railroad depot was established in the early 1900s, and the town experienced a boom with more than 20 businesses by the 1920s. But when the Depression hit in the 1930s, many of them began to close. Railroad travel started its decline after World War II, and by the mid-1980s, trains had stopped running through the area. The depot and the post office were closed. Nearby South Hill, closer to the interstate highway, took the rest of the businesses away, and Union Level became a ghost town. It is still a residential area though. There are about 180 people living in this peaceful, rural town, according to the most recent census data.
Looking north over Union Square Park towards the Flatiron district. Union Square, NYC
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The Memorial Union on the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia by Notley Hawkins Photography. Taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark IV camera with a Canon EF16-35mm f/4L IS USM lens at ƒ/4.0 with a 0.5 second exposure at ISO 200. Processed with Adobe Lightroom Classic CC.
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Union Station in Kansas City, MO.
This was 7 sets of HDR photos stitched together. 21 images total. Dealing with distortion on this type of image is a real bear as making horizontal lines straight just makes things more distorted. In any event, I settled with this layout in a 3x1 format panorama.
The Denver and Rio Grande Western heritage locomotive, at 7200 West, in Salt Lake City, Utah, with and intermodal train, bound for North Platte, Nebraska.
My spring set taken the last weekend of April (too wet to farm). These are from the Titonka and Union Slough area. Enjoy.
Union had a population of 580 in 2010 and is located in McHenry County. Union is the home of the Illinois Railway Museum, McHenry County Historical Society and Donley's Wild West amusement park. Red Kelly right fielder of the Chicago White Sox is from Union.