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Union Terminal's east facade. Cincinnati Union Terminal is an intercity train station and museum center in the Queensgate neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. It opened in 1933 as a union station to replace five train stations serving seven railroads in the city. Passenger service ceased in 1972, and the station concourse was demolished.
The Cincinnati Union Terminal Company was created in 1927 to build a union station to replace five local stations used by seven railroads. Construction, which lasted from 1928 to 1933, included the creation of viaducts, mail and express buildings, and utility structures: a power plant, water treatment facility, and roundhouse .
[2] [4] Connections with southwestern railroads, including the Missouri Pacific, Missouri-Kansas-Texas, Cotton Belt, and the Frisco, were made at St. Louis Union Station. In 1939–1940, the National Limited was streamlined and dieselized. [1] In the 1950s, coaches were added to the train's consist, and a Slumbercoach was first used on this ...
Lincoln Park was a small oasis among the dense housing and factories of Cincinnati’s West End, but was lost to build Union Terminal.
The Cincinnati Limited carried connecting sleeping cars to the Louisville and Nashville Railroad's Cincinnati to New Orleans Pan American. [1] [2] By the mid-1950s, the sleeper extension on L&N lines ended at Memphis instead of New Orleans. [3] [4] The train was sustained into the era of the Penn Central, the successor of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Cincinnati Subway cancelled. 1930 Population: 451,160 ; Cincinnati and Lake Erie Railroad in operation. 1932 - Lane Theological Seminary closed. 1933 - Cincinnati Union Terminal opens. 1937 Ohio River flood of 1937; Cincinnati Bengals (1937–41) 1940 - Population: 455,610 ; 1950 - Population:503,998
The Cincinnati Museum Center is a museum complex operating out of the Cincinnati Union Terminal in the Queensgate neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. It houses museums, theater, a library, and a symphonic pipe organ, as well as special traveling exhibitions .
1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. C ... Cincinnati Union Terminal; Court Square–23rd Street station; F.