Gary, IN: NYC and B&O Depot

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Richard Roberts posted

I saved a satellite image because it looks like it is on borrowed time.

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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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.
David Koyzis Gary itself was only four years old at the time.

Jim commented on his posting
Postcard view of interior of Gary Union Station in better days.

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.

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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.

Richard Roberts posted

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.
Maxwell Crosby The City of Gary has owned it for a while. If that is any indicator as to how it’s gotten to this point.
Chuck Pullen 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...
Craig Cloud 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.
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https://nwigs.org/ImageArchive/Gary/GaryImagesRailroads.htm

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!)

Steven J. Brown posted
Don’t think anything will be stopping at Gary Union Station today.

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.

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

Steven J. Brown posted
Norfolk Southern stack train westbound by the remnants of Union Station in Gary, Indiana - August 28, 2021.

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.]

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