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Opened in 2008 and operating 24 hours a day, it serves Amtrak trains and Greyhound and Burlington Trailways interstate buses. Missouri's largest rail transportation station, it is located one block east of St. Louis Union Station. Gateway Station cost $31.4 million [a] to build, [5] and after more than a year of delays it fully opened on ...
A #15 Hodiamont streetcar near Wellston in April 1963. The enterprise now known as Metro Transit was founded in 1963 when the Bi-State Development Agency, using a $22.5 million bond issue, purchased and consolidated 15 privately owned transit operators to sustain efficient and reliable public transportation in the region.
The St. Louis region’s port system is the second-largest inland port system in the United States, and was ranked the most efficient port system by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The St. Louis regional port system is responsible for 8% of the 855 miles of the Mississippi River, but carries one-third of the river’s total freight. [42]
MetroLink (reporting mark BSDA) is a light rail system [7] [8] that serves the Greater St. Louis area. Operated by Metro Transit in a shared fare system with MetroBus, [9] the two-line, 38-station system runs from St. Louis Lambert International Airport and Shrewsbury in Missouri to Scott Air Force Base in Illinois.
St. Louis, Morehouse and Southern Railroad: SLSF: 1899 1904 St. Louis and Gulf Railway: St. Louis and North Arkansas Railway: 1899 1906 Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad: St. Louis, Oak Hill and Carondelet Railway: MP: 1886 1910 Missouri Pacific Railway: St. Louis Railway and Dock Company: St. Louis and St. Joseph Railroad: ATSF: 1868 1874
During this period, the population of East St. Louis nearly doubled each decade. Amidst this growth, the East St. Louis and Suburban grew by acquiring shorter interurban lines. The Illinois Traction System reached St. Louis via trackage rights on the East St. Louis and Suburban over the Eads Bridge until the completion of the McKinley Bridge.
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St. Louis Union Station is a National Historic Landmark and former train station in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. At its 1894 opening, the station was the largest in the world. Traffic peaked at 100,000 people a day in the 1940s. [3] The last Amtrak passenger train left the station in 1978.