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GRAND
CENTRAL STATION -
- .....the charm of the train station. The hub of travel activity
prior to jet travel. Many of these grand stations are still a symbol
of that era. Whenever you visit a city, check and get the details
about the train station. Many of them have been converted into tourist
destinations or are still train stations ....it is worth checking
out.
- Grand
Central Terminal -
- New York City. The revitalized Grand Central. It combines
the romance of train travel, the history of a magnificent terminal
building from a bygone time, a destination for superb restaurants,
and convenience of outstanding retail shops. It's unlike any
other New York attraction right in the heart of midtown. The
MTA network links the diverse parts of New York, enabling residents
and visitors to get where they want to go swiftly and at reasonable
cost. MTA services offer the region efficient, environmentally
sound travel alternatives to gridlocked streets and highways.
And the mobility provided by the MTA helps ensure New York's
place as a world center of finance, commerce, culture, and entertainment.
- Kansas
City Union Station -
- Union Station, perhaps Kansas City's most cherished edifice.
Symbol of the City.
- Los
Angeles Union Station -
- Union Station - The Los Angeles Rail Transit Home Page. Union
Station, built in 1939, is considered to be "The last of America's
great rail stations." Located in Downtown Los Angeles on 800
N. Alameda St., between the Santa Ana Freeway (US 101) and Cesar
E. Chavez Avenue (Formerly Macy St.), this was, is and will
be the home of Los Angeles transportation - past, present and
future.
- Los
Angeles Union Station -
- Union Station was built by the Southern Pacific, Union Pacific,
and Santa Fe railroads. Costing $11 million, it opened in 1939,
the last of the great stations in America.
- Nashville
Union Station -
- Nashville, Tennessee. The passenger train station for the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N RR). This historic depot
is a favorite of train buffs. Southern artist George B. Kirchner
hand-colored the original black and white antique lithograph
print of Union Station.
- Saint
Louis Union Station -
- Saint Louis Union Station is a National Historic Landmark
with the expansive 11.5 acre trainshed features a hotel, a unique
marketplace of shops, assortment of fine restaurants and cafes,
live entertainment and a lake with boats.
- Texas
Railroad Stations -
- San Antonio -- Denison -- Ft. Stockton -- Ft. Worth -- La
Grange -- Marshall.
- Washington,
D.C. Union Station -
- For many years, Union Station has welcomed people to the most
important city in the world. This magnificent building has even
played host to Presidents and countless foreign dignitaries.
However, what may be most impressive is the fact that Union
Station's marble floors echo with the footsteps of over 23.4
million people each year, making it the most visited site in
all of Washington, D.C.
- Washington,
D.C. Union Station -
- Washington, D.C.'s Union Station was built jointly by the
Pennsylvania (PRR) and Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) Railroads on an
area of swampland near the U.S. Capitol Building. The station,
designed by architect Daniel Burnham, opened with the arrival
of a B&O Railroad passenger train from Pittsburgh on October
27, 1907.
- Worcester,
Massachusetts Union Station -
- Beautiful lithograph of watercolor painting. Historic Union
Station located in Worcester Massachusetts, opened in 1911.
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