Union Station
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Union Station is a name commonly given to a union station or union terminal: a train station in which tracks and facilities are shared by two or more railway companies.
In North American practice such a shared facility is usually owned by a separate corporation, with proportionate shares owned by the different railways which use the facilities. In that manner, the costs and benefits of the union station's operations are shared among the owning railways. This is distinct from the other common rail facility sharing system, trackage rights, in which one company owns a railway line or facility, but allows another railway to use its trackage "as of right" according to a contractual agreement.
Train stations named Union Station:
- Union Station (Chattanooga)
- Union Station (Chicago)
- Union Station (Cincinnati)
- Union Station (Dallas)
- Union Station (Denver)
- Union Station (El Paso)
- Union Station (Indianapolis)
- Union Station (Jacksonville)
- Union Station (Kansas City)
- Union Station (Los Angeles)
- Union Station (Nashville)
- Union Station (New Haven, Connecticut)
- Union Station (Pittsburgh), Daniel Burnham, architect, 1898 - 1903
- Union Station (Portland)
- Union Station (Ottawa), no longer a train station
- Union Station (St. Louis)
- Union Station (Seattle)
- Union Station (Toronto)
- Union Station (Washington, D.C.), Daniel Burnham, architect, 1908
- Union Station (Winnipeg)
- Union Terminal (Cleveland) (no longer standing)
External link
The Straight Dope: Why do so many cities have a "Union Station"?
