This post has a lot of information about the headquarters buildings of L&N. Fortunately, it is a public group so please use the link.
TARC (Transit Authority of River City, it runs the busses in the area) bought the headhouse and finished a $2m renovation in 1980.
The station was built by L&N, but it was also used by Pennsy and Monon. Louisville also had a Union Depot that served four railroads: B&O, C&O, IC and Big Four. The Union Depot was also called the 7th Street Station and Central Station.
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| Carl Venzke posted L&N Union Station and yard, Louisville, Ky [This photo appears to be HABS KY,56-LOUVI,23--12.] |
The tall office building is labelled the L&N Building, but the web site given for it by Google is louisvilleky.gov. The freight houses and their tracks are now a parking lot. My kudos to Kentucky State for restoring the office building and giving it a new purpose.
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| Ahmme Sojolm posted Union Station, Tenth Street Depot. A historic railroad station that serves as offices for the Transit Authority of River City (TARC), as it has since mid-April 1980 after receiving a year-long restoration costing approximately $2 million. A railroad station that opened in 1891 by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad has served as offices for the Transit Authority of River City since 1980. It superseded previous, smaller, railroad depots around Louisville at the time. Completed in 1889 at a cost of over $310,000, it was once the largest railroad station in the southern U.S., covering 40 acres. Designed by F. W. Mobray, in the Richardsonian Romanesque-style, with brick-faced limestone ashlar quarried in Bowling Green, KY, and Bedford stone trim from Indiana. The roof, trussed with a combination of heavy wood and iron, is covered with slate. Architectural features include a clock tower, smaller towers, turrets, a facade of considerable size, and barreled vaulting. The interior featured an atrium, dining, and spacious ladies’ retiring rooms on the first floor. A wrought iron balcony overlooks the atrium. Soft lighting comes from rose-colored windows on both sides of the atrium. The walls are made of marble from Georgia, as well as oak and southern pine. Ceramic tiles covers the floor. A fire in 1905 occurred in the facility, and the original rose-colored windows were replaced with an 84-panel stained glass skylight that became a feature of the barrel-vaulting tower. At the height of rail travel in the 1920s, the station served 58 trains a day, with the popularity of rail travel diminishing by the mid-1960s. Amtrak used the facility from 1971 until 1976, when it began running the Floridian in conjunction with the Auto-Train from a suburban station. From 2001 to 2003, a track on the west side of the parking lot served Amtrak’s Kentucky Cardinal to Chicago. The first floor is open to the public from 8 am – 5 pm, Monday – Friday. |
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| transportation.ky.gov, p133 |
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| Dale Proctor posted Union Station in Louisville KY, November 1987. Rich Gwyn: Looks a lot like the sister in Nashville |
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HABS KY,56-LOUVI,23--11. NORTH (FRONT) ELEVATION, FROM NORTHWEST - Louisville & Nashville Railroad, Union Station, 1000 West Broadway, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY |
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| American-Rails.com posted Louisville & Nashville engineer C. Hagan "Jazzbo" Thompson is about to climb into the cab of FP7 #653 at Louisville Union Station, lead power for train #8, the northbound "Pan American," headed for Cincinnati during August of 1966. Ron Flanary photo. Paul Jevert shared L&N at Louisville (1966) Ron Flanary |
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| Jerry Abraham posted Here are two pictures of the George Washington, a Chesapeake Ohio passenger train that came to Louisville! The train ran daily between Louisville and New York! |
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| Roland Boles posted The "South Wind" awaits departure from Louisville Union Station in June, 1970. John DeVries: Wow, no head end cars, a couple coaches and probably a sleeper or a diner. Sad end, it will be gone within a year. Bruce Connie: Sad the rail on the platform to the right is all rusted. No activity |
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| Tom Bedwell posted This is from a 35mm slide I took in the 1950s in Louisville Union Station. That's the PRR Louisville - Chicago local getting ready to leave for the 300-mile trip north. James McKee Ridgway Jr.: Any chance you can post a real image of your “slide”? This AI stuff is just too strange… [There were quite a few comments about it being AI.] Edward Kwiatkowski shared Kenneth Burris: That looks like one of the passenger sharks. pennsys [is] the only road that had the bigger sharkk. they had A-1-A trucks and a longer body. Keith Pomroy: I never saw a baggage car with that roof detail nor pin-stripe where the letter board would be. Something’s clearly wrong with the photo. James McKee Ridgway Jr.: Keith Pomroy, The AI does some strange stuff with details… Keith Pomroy: James McKee Ridgway Jr. this is alarming. A huge part of the rail fan’s hobby is archival activity. Muddying an historical record rapidly receding from living memory is not acceptable. Peter Jirousek: Would this have taken the Panhandle route into chicago? Alan Buck: Peter Jirousek took the Pennsylvania railroad up through Indianapolis to Logansport, and then the panhandle main the rest of the way to Chicago. Brian Alnutt: Sharks! Competed w/Monon on the route I suppose. Mark Niceley: Those curves on the Monon's South end were fun. It 1847, they went around the hills instead of digging through, to save money. Used to love riding Amtrak's rerouted "Floridian" through there. You won't do it now, unless riding on a Huffy!! |
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| Tom Bedwell commented on James' comment |
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| Troy Bellamy commented on Edward's share Sadly no more trains, just hundreds of buses call it home today. |
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| Wonderful Life, Dec 2017 |
The route on the left was Pennsy to the north and IC to the south. So did they share the yard on the left and also use this station? I presume so since it is called a Union Station. (Update: Pennsy and Monon were the other railroads that used it. [Wikipedia_union]
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| 1955/57 Louisville East Quad @ 24,000 |
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