Mountgomery, AL: 1898 Union Station and Train Shed

(HAER; Satellite)

Street View, Apr 2023

Kenton Dickerson posted two photos with the comment: "Union Depot and Train Shed in Montgomery, AL."

Jim Kelling shared with the comment: "Montgomery Alabama (Union Station)."

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The station was built by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in 1898, and it was also used by "Atlantic Coast Line, Western Railway of Alabama, Seaboard Air Line, Central of Georgia, and Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad. The station had six tracks under a 600-foot shed....It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976." Union Station closed in 1979 when Amtrak terminated its Chicago to Miami train. [TheClio]

It also served the Southern RR trains of Crescent and Piedmont Limited. "At its historic peak, it was servicing as many as 44 trains a day." This source claims it was built in 1891. All of the other sources I read agree on the 1898 date except for an 1893 date in this source. [AlabamaBackroads]

This website has architectural details.

Not only has the trainshed been preserved, but so has the interior.

Gabriel Craft, Jan 2019

Montgomery North and South Quads @ 24,000

Mar 5, 1972 @ 23,000; AR1VCVE00010072