Favourite station/depot?


Milwaukee Road 113

Milwaukee Road 113

Milwaukee Road addict...
As the title say, which is your favourite station/depot?

Needless to say, this one, has a firm hold on the #1 spot on my list....

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Are we talking USA/North America or are we opening this to "the world"? But I guess my favorite might not be the "most beautiful" anyway... Hmm.
 
I would have loved to have seen this one in person; Penn Station, NY, NY
What were they thinking or smoking when they decided to tear that down?

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Here is another great one , Penn Station in Baltimore. Fortunately I found a picture taken before they put up a huge ugly, strange statue/art thing in front of it.

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and another, Camden Station in Baltimore. Although it is no longer a train station it is great looking!

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Iron Horseman said:
Are we talking USA/North America or are we opening this to "the world"? But I guess my favorite might not be the "most beautiful" anyway... Hmm.
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Well, was thinking North America, as that where my main interest is regarding trains, but......let's take over the world! lol
 
Ok, last one; Union Station in Washington, DC
Last time I was there my oldest daughter was in the University of MD in 2003. The place was so clean you could eat off the floor, amazing!

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From my home town, Cincinnati Union Terminal. Now the Cincinnati Museum Center. (Amtrack does run service there.)UTCin.jpgunion_terminal_exterior.jpg
 
Milwaukee Road 113 said:
Well, was thinking North America, as that where my main interest is regarding trains, but......let's take over the world! lol
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If we are talking the world then I really like the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai.
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Then the smaller but equally pleasing Antwerp Central
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For the USA I don't like the heavy arched government looking stations. Not even Penn Station NYC or the Penn 30th Street Station in Philly. They looked really good inside, but outside was/is..... well boring. I like the Milwaukee proposed in the original message of this thread much better. The tall clock towers really accent the fact that the Railroad Standard Time was what drove this country for 100 years. But I think someone has to throw a nod to the grand daddy of them all - St. Louis Union Station. Not only glorious to look at but the operation on an interlaced triple wye serving more different railroads than any other in the USA. My first model railroad club was in this building, and I lived across the street from it for my first year out of college.
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But then I really think my FAVORITE is the Santa Fe County Seat brick stations. They could be found in places like Stafford, Marion, Kingman, Sterling Kansas, Rocky Ford and Swink Colorado, And of course the unique stucco version that was in Kiowa Kansas.
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Florence Kansas
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I have not been in many foreign train stations but this one was very impressive in Budapest.

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Suburban Station, Philadelphia, DL&W Station, Scranton, both in PA.

Internationally- Bergen, Norway.
 
I will have to agree with 113. We passed through this station on out trips from Montana to Chicago. For me it was a wake up call, here come the big city when we were eastbound and a sigh of relief when we were westbound.

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The last time I saw it was in the spring of 1965 on a visit to Milwaukee while stationed at Great Lakes, IL. Shortly after, it was damaged by fire and torn down the following year. A beautiful building.
 
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