This #Union Buildings tagged image is courtesy of Flickr. Click on the Flickr account holder below the photograph to see more. Image by The U.S. National Archives Original Caption: Loading platform at Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri Most of the tracks are being cleared away for a parking lot. In its heyday the station served more than 200 trains per day compared to six passenger trains a day in 1974. Only a portion of the station is used for passengers; the remainder is set aside as …
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Pretoria Image: Union Station in Portland, Oregon, one of 450 passenger train terminals served by Amtrak in 1974, July 1974
This #Union Buildings tagged image is courtesy of Flickr. Click on the Flickr account holder below the photograph to see more. Image by The U.S. National Archives Original Caption: Union Station in Portland, Oregon, one of 450 passenger train terminals served by Amtrak in 1974. During that year the corporation listed 8,800 employees and operated 225 trains per day. A steady decline in ridership from the end of World War II to 1970 has been reversed since Amtrak assumed responsibility for …