(satellite image is below)
I saved a satellite image because it looks like it is on borrowed time.
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3D Satellite
NS/NYC/LS&MS is on the top and B&O is on the bottom. |
Scott Griffith
posted four photos.
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Wayne Hudak We took that ramp, turned left at the top to reach the NYC tracks to drop off mail for the NYC-PC. After 1969 that practice stopped. |
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Korry Shepard
posted three photos with the comment:
This is Gary Union Station (185 Broadway) as seen in 1965. At one point, GUS saw 36 daily trains that stopped here.
The issue with GUS was that it was not an effective terminal as far as long distance travelers. Because it sat between two east-west routes, passengers could not go to any city that didn't terminate in either Chicago or New York City without reversing direction of travel at their respective stations.
Washington D.C. was the furthest south one could go when boarding at GUS. There were no connecting trains that took passengers anywhere else until 1956, when New York Central began Detroit service on its line. Even then, that was the furthest north one could go without transferring to other trains.
The next issue was the construction of the Indiana Toll Road, which effectively cut off the station from the rest of the city with a physical barrior. When I-90 was built in the late 50s, there weren't any entrances or exits at Broadway. So people couldn't use it to reach GUS.
Additionally, the physical elevated road and its pylons served as an intimidating obstical. Coupled with the elimination of streetcar service, passenger numbers at GUS declined rapidly.
Though Amtrak had 12 daily trains that stopped here in 1971 (6 east and 6 west), the company decided to eliminate service at GUS in favor of its Hammond-Whiting station to the west. GUS closed up, and the rest is history.
The decline of GUS had little to do with the City of Gary's government. Also, the economic situation that it suffered through at the time was of little consequence. The station was owned by the railroad and the industry decided, for good or for bad, that it was too expensive to operate effectively.
All photos from Terminal Town.
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Jim Arvites posted
Postcard view from 1910 of the Gary Union Station in better days when the Lake Shore & Southern (NYC) and the Baltimore & Ohio made stops at the grand old depot. Although the station still stands today, it is in ruins and looks like an ancient Greek temple.
Gary itself was only four years old at the time. |
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Jim commented on his posting
Postcard view of interior of Gary Union Station in better days. |
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| David Koyzis commented on Jim's posting |
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| David Koyzis commented on Jim's posting |
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Joe Usselman posted
21G with the N&W heritage passes the long abandoned Gary Union Station in 2015. |
Judging from
Update: Richard Roberts made a trip to
post 16 contemporary [April 25, 2018] photos of the depot and freight house, including some interior shots. When you see these photos, it makes you wonder why coaling towers have lasted as well as they have. It looks like reinforced concrete floors have fallen down.
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Richard Roberts posted
[Have they cut the trees since the above satellite photo was taken, and we are looking at this freight house?] |
Shad Steve Vargo
posted seven interior photos of the current (2018) state of decay.
The City of Gary has owned it for a while. If that is any indicator as to how it’s gotten to this point.
They also have received hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars to restore this building. They could have resorted five times over by now but as you said, Gary...
Gary has been saying this and that on now razed Sheraton hotel. First, Senior citizen assisted living place. Station? Well it used in film Original Gangstas or something like that.
https://adventurecycling.tours/.../gary-indiana.../
https://nwigs.org/ImageArchive/Gary/GaryImagesRailroads.htm
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Steven J. Brown posted
Amtrak Blue Water #364 passing the remnants of Union Station (built 1910, abandoned 1971) in Gary, Indiana - August 28, 2021. I remember exploring this back in my teen years. In the late 70s it was a junk yard. It was filled inside and out with junk cars. Did I take any pictures?? NO! (Damn it!) |
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Steven J. Brown posted
Don’t think anything will be stopping at Gary Union Station today. |
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Steven J. Brown posted
Norfolk Southern AC44C6M 4356 (built 1997 as NS 9123) leads a westbound stack train by the remnants of Gary Union Station's express freight building (built 1910) in Gary, Indiana - August 28, 2021. |
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Dennis DeBruler commented on Steven's post
I never realized that that building was there until I saw this photo.
41°36'20.1"N 87°20'08.8"W |
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Steven J. Brown posted
Norfolk Southern stack train westbound by the remnants of Union Station in Gary, Indiana - August 28, 2021. |
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HalstEd Pazdzior posted
Chicago South Shore heading east past the ruins of Gary Union Station.
7/5/22
Joe Millspaugh: With a Kirk bound coke train welded to the rail on #2 main. No where to go. Curtis yard is full. Lol
HalstEd Pazdzior: Joe Millspaugh yes sir. They had a crew though.
[The CSS now operates the former EJ&E City Track.] |
One doesn't see the east side very often.
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NP Rail Photography posted
NS Local B16 with an SD70M-2 leading long hood forward, passes the former New York Central station in Gary, Indiana, on the NS Chicago Line. June 2, 2024 Gary, Indiana Power: NS 2662 - SD70M-2 NS 7144 - GP60 NS???? |
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Steven J. Brown posted
Canadian National SD70M-2 8949 (built 2011) passes the abandoned Union Station (built 1910) in Gary, Indiana - August 28, 2021. |
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