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The Memories Museum features artifacts and displays about the history of St. Louis Union Station and rail travel in the United States. [16] Located on the upper level of the train shed, the museum is a joint project of Union Station Associates and the National Museum of Transportation .
In 2011 St. Louis was named by U.S. News & World Report as the most dangerous city in the United States, using Uniform Crime Reports data published by the U.S. Department of Justice. [266] In addition, St. Louis was named as the city with the highest crime rate in the United States by CQ Press in 2010, using data reported to the FBI in 2009. [267]
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway, later part of the New York Central Railroad; The Association built Union Station, opening it in 1894. The station would close in 1978 when Amtrak moved to a temporary facility several hundred yards to the east. In its early years, the Association was at odds with the St. Louis Merchants ...
St. Louis Union Station. Completed in 1894, the Romanesque St. Louis Union Station was designed by Theodore Link, who also designed the Mississippi state capitol building in Jackson.
English: Built in 1892-1894, this Richardsonian Romanesque Revival-style building was designed by Theodore Link for the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis to serve as a Union Station for multiple railroads that offered passenger service in the city at the time. The building consists of three sections, those being a head house, a large ...
Although Chicago, Illinois had a greater volume of traffic at its Union Station, more railroads met at St. Louis than any other city in the United States. [31] Union Station's rail platform expanded in 1930 and operated as the passenger rail terminal for St. Louis into the 1970s. [31]
St. Louis Union Station, a disused train station in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about railway and public transport stations with the same name.
Between St. Louis and Kansas City, the train ran on the Wabash Railroad, then on the Norfolk & Western which leased the Wabash in 1964. This part of the run became a separate train on June 19, 1968, retaining the City of St Louis name until its discontinuance in April 1969; after June 1968 the Union Pacific train was the City of Kansas City ...