Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site oakhill.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amdcad!amd!dual!mordor!ut-sally!oakhill!don From: don@oakhill.UUCP (Don Weiss) Newsgroups: net.railroad Subject: Re: Silver Streak and Union Stations Message-ID: <335@oakhill.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Feb-85 22:54:29 EST Article-I.D.: oakhill.335 Posted: Fri Feb 8 22:54:29 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 02:26:46 EST References: <421@utcs.UUCP> <355@lsuc.UUCP>Reply-To: don@oakhill.UUCP (Don Weiss) Organization: Motorola Inc. Austin, Tx Lines: 18 While we're talking about train stations, let's all shed a tear for the departed train concourse of Chicago's Union Station, which was torn down maybe 15 years ago to make way for a skyscraper. (As of a few years ago at least, the trains were still coming into the double-stub terminal, but they just emptied into a dreary concrete-walled basement.) I have fond memories of commuting through that station in the years around 1960. Its ugly industrial charm was much in keeping with the Chicago of Carl Sandburg. When I saw Silver Streak, it appeared to me that the train was crashing into the Union Station *Annex*, immediately to the west of the concourse building and connected to it under a street. This building (which I'm pretty sure still stands) has a large waiting room but *no* tracks approaching it, so I was rather amused. With this latest revelation, I conclude that there is a considerable similar- ity between this Annex and Toronto's Union Station.