Great Train Stations
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A 1948 tour of the Railroad Capital’s six major terminals
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Portland (Ore.) Union; Seattle King Street and Union
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North meets South at Washington Union Station
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CNJ Jersey City; DL&W Hoboken; Erie Jersey City
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Up to 30 trains a day sailed from L.A.’s terminal in 1944
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Oakland Pier; San Francisco; San Diego
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Inside Grand Central Terminal during World War II
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Boston North and South stations; New York Penn Station
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Canadian National builds for the future in 1943
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Kansas City Union Station; St. Louis Union Station
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About the station that was once the West’s largest building
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St. Paul Union Depot; Minneapolis MILW and GN depots
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Terminal and Union stations kept Atlanta moving
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Philadelphia: PRR 30th Street and Reading Terminal
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Dallas Union Terminal: bright star of Texas transportation
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Richmond; New Orleans; Birmingham; Jacksonville
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“You had to be there, preferably on a soft spring evening”
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Buffalo Central Terminal