Cleveland, OH: 1876 Union Station

(Satellite, it is now the parking lot south of the NS tracks.)

That was an impressive structure for 1876. In 1930, it was replaced by Union Terminal.

Rick Fleischer posted
Cleveland Union Station 1876.

 

Cragnolini M Line posted two images with the comment:

The station was constructed along Cleveland's lake front with Lake Erie, between modern-day 6th and 9th Streets, close to the current Amtrak station.[4]

The 1866 depot was designed and constructed by industrialist and railroad director Amasa Stone.[7] At the time of its construction, the building measured 603 by 180 feet (184 m × 55 m), making it the largest building under one roof, and the largest train station, in the United States. It retained those records until Grand Central Depot was built in New York City in 1871. Thereafter it retained recognition as the largest terminal west of New York City.[6] It was also among the first buildings to use structural iron, and had Berea Sandstone exterior walls. Its most iconic feature was a 96-foot clocktower on the south facade, topped with a tin-covered dome

Union Depot Tower, 1930 Union Depot at the foot of West 9th Street, January 1930. Image courtesy of Cleveland State University Division of Special Collections.

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Jason Peters commented on Cragnolini's post
you can see it in here

I saw a map that labeled the location of the long, skinny rectangle that is west of 3rd Street and below the NS/NYC/LS&MS tracks as Union Sta. (Unfortunately, I can't remember where I saw that map.) It seems to be the union of two NYC railroads, (LS&MS and Big Four). The Big Four used the track that curves south and crosses the river down by Carter Road. Did Pennsy also use this station? (Update: yes. In fact they continued to use it after the Cleveland Union Terminal was built. [case])

1953 Cleveland North and South Quadrangles @ 1:24,000

In addition to the NYC/LS&MS and B&O #464 Bridges, this photo shows the Union Station.

Wayne Koch posted
Cleveland OH Railyard NYC PRR 1949.
Geoffrey Morland shared

B&O and Erie had their own stations south of Detroit Avenue.

Thomas Wentzel posted

Cleveland Ohio 1928 looking north and east towards Cleveland Union Terminal Tower.

Two other train sheds are showing. The one on the left is at the Erie RR passenger station.

The other at center-right is a two-level shed at B&O passenger station.

I found confirmation of the Union Station location and that the other long skinny rectangle further west was the Union Freight Depot. (Back in 1896, 3rd Street was named Seneca.)

Key via 1896 Vol 1 via "cleveland+cuyahoga"

Boby Johnson posted
Dave Lep shared
Jim Kelling shared
Cleveland lakefront Union Station (replaced)
Raymond Storey posted
THE OLD CLEVELAND UNION TERMINAL

Dennis DeBruler commented on Jim's share
Thanks for the identification. This 1876 station was west of 3rd Street between the NYC/LSMS+Big Four tracks and the Pennsy tracks. It is now a parking lot:
 https://www.google.com/maps/@41.5022553,-81.7021068,446m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu
1953 Cleveland North and South Quadrangles @ 1:24,000

Abigail Kingsley posted
1906 The Harbor, Cleveland, Ohio Vintage Old Photo.

Tom J. Cassidy: More mail/baggage cars than I would've expected.

Morton Tucker: One wonders how much transfer of dry freight to lake boats was still going on here at this time.

[I don't think of 1906 as modern, but when it comes to water vs. railroad transport of freight, it is modern.]

Brian Wolf shared

Cleveland,  OH 1906

Richard Shulby commented on Brian's share
GREAT SHOT! Thanks for posting! Taken over the roof of the Union Passenger Station shed the area including and to the right of the coal loading trestle near the lakefront is PRR trackage (originally Cuddy-Mullen Coal Co tracks). The next 2/3 of the lakefront area is LS&MS trackage with the last small portion being PRR again (Cleveland & Pittsburgh RR). Just left of center in the distance against the lakefront is a water tower. Just in front of that is the 9-stall brick LS&MS brick roundhouse- built 1896, and lasting until sometime between 1952 and 1962. Attached is a 1912 Cleveland Historical maps image showing the trackage layout.

What looked like a roundhouse east of the PRR coal docks must have been a stadium. The LS&MS roundhouse is long gone in 1967.

Ancient Threads posted
An aerial photo from 1967 shows plumes of industrial waste flowing in the Cuyahoga River and emptying into Lake Erie. Cleveland, Ohio.

Carl Constantino: Red means iron content. The iron is not the actual hazard, it’s the stuff you can’t see like Chromates, Nickel compounds, mercury and multiple other heavy metallic compounds, organic solvents and oils from refining, and other process waste including untreated or under treated sewage that were being dumped in.

Nick Tiliakos: Carl Constantino Mercury, well actually there many chemicals, but Mercury was the most at that time