Ocala Union Station, Florida. Pity I cannot board a train there anymore.
Editor Emeritus, This Week at Amtrak
Anyone familiar with the Buffalo NYC terminal? It was on TV lately in the record snow fall coverage Buffalo got this fall. Detroit NYC terminal still stands highly gutted by scrappers who just recently tore down its steel smokestack for scrap.
What a waste to see some famous national rail terminals saved and others just blighted. Construction like that will not come again easily.
Am a real fan of Grand Central, Washington DC, St. Louis without trains and Chicago Union. Not sure what happened to Cincinati, Buffalo, and in California etc.?
Doc
Seattle King Street. Beautiful building that fits Seattle and the Northwest well.
Utica Amtrak station....classic architecture and direction connections to the adsr. No live steam but some great first generation diesels.
Not too far from Dearborn is the Durand, MI station, on Amtrak's Blue Water line. It was the crux of the GT, where the Canada-Chicago main crossed the Detroit-Grand Haven line. Ann Arbor RR (now Great Lakes Central) also crossed there. In steam days it had a roundhouse that almost made a full circle. The large (for a small town) station is mostly run by a preservation group. It's a great place to watch trains, and attracts railfans.
Dearborn, Michigan has a new Amtrak station which considering the loss of all of the great Detroit rail facilities seem unremarkable. The new building in Dearborn, however, houses an historic 0-4-0 Davenport steam narrow gauge switch engine inside the concourse of the building. This new station seems remarkable for being a modern copy of the grand style it is constructed in. Across the platform is Henry Ford Museum with operating steam locomotives as well as housing former Lake Shore And Michigan Southern passenger 4-4-2 as well as a pristine C&O 2-6-6-6.
There must be other classic Amtrak facilities with a steam locomotive heritage worth discussing. Anyone have a favorite?
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