This replaced the 1876 Union Station that was close to the lakefront.
"Passenger train operations, to and from Cleveland, over the New York Central, Big Four and
Nickel Plate railroads, now focus in the new Union Station at the Public Square." [Souvenier Dedication Book, p5 via ClevelandMemory]
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| Souvenier Dedication Book, p16 via ClevelandMemory |
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| ClevelandHistorical, Source: Cleveland Public Library Photograph Collection Date: February 14, 1930 The tower is 708' (216m) tall. "When completed in 1930, it was the tallest tower in the world outside New York City." |
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| Gabe Wasylko Photography posted Happy 94th Birthday [Jun 28, 2024] to The Terminal Tower in Cleveland, OH Jay Krajcovic shared |
Robert Daly posted four images with the comment: "The city of Cleveland during the 1920s favored a very conservative architectural style for its major buildings. Unlike the Art Deco masterpieces appearing in other places, like the Cincinnati and Buffalo stations, NYC chose a style for CUT that was derived from historical examples. Terminal Tower's design appears to have been based on the GiraldaTower in Seville, Spain, dating back to the Middle Ages. In 2005 I visited Seville and photographed the Tower. Obviously Terminal Tower is not a carbon copy but the overall massing and architectural details echo the Giralda."
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| Thomas Wentzel posted Railyard being laid-out, behind the under-construction Cleveland Union Terminal 1929. The B&O Terminal on the left, and The Erie shed on the right. |
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| Roy Nagy posted West approach to Cleveland Union Terminal. The tracks west of Terminal Tower on Nov 22, 1929. The first passenger train at Cleveland Union Terminal (CUT) was on Oct 24, 1929. The last was in 1977. There was no Rapid on the west side at the time of this photo. The elevated road is W Huron. From left to right: Hotel Cleveland; Terminal Tower; the building under construction is known today as Landmark Office Towers; and just below it is CUT's steam concourse (the location of Tower City’s former fountain). A small portion of Canal Rd is seen at the center of the photo's right edge. The tracks showing are allocated inside the terminal, left to right, as follows: 6 tracks for Traction Concourse, 12 tracks for Steam Concourse and 9 tracks for the yard outdoors. Tracks run under W Prospect and W Huron. The square footprint of Terminal Tower itself has no basement. Derya M. Ferendeci shared Flora Jack posted [The description is the same as Roy's above.] Roy Nagy: You’ve stolen my content word-for-word. This is not the first time. Do your own work. [Further comments indicate that everything Flora posts is stolen, and the account is probably not a real person. I've read that Facebook won't shut down accounts that pretend to be someone else. They should also shutdown such rampant plagiarism.] Gohn L Garcia shared |
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| Peter James Paras posted Not my photo. Location: Cleveland, Ohio. Railroad: Cleveland Union Terminal. I believe they were part of the New York Central RR. 576 level frame. Don Kretchmer: Fantastic machine 👍 Do you know how many would have worked that tower per trick? Gregory Lund: Don Kretchmer if it followed similar installations (tower 48 & 49 in Buffalo, Towers A & B in GCT) 3 levermen, a Director, and telegrapher. Director controlled the operation, barking out orders to the levermen, the telegrapher kept track of the order of trains coming in, as well as OSing of trains to the DS, and feeding the order of trains to the director. There were places ( MO tower in Bronx Jct between z Hudson and Harlem/New Haven) where there were 2 telegraphers. Michael Dow: I think the CUT was all the railroads that came into Cleveland except the PRR. Steve McMullen: And all the little dwarf signals were designed to look like terminal tower |
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| Jon Talton posted Here's an image of the grand, Art Deco Buffalo Central Terminal, circa 1980. Built by the New York Central System, the 17-story head house welcomed passenger trains from 1929 to 1979. It saw all the passenger trains of NYC's "Great Steel Fleet," including the Twentieth Century Limited. The Canadian National, Pennsylvania, and Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo railroads also served the station (Photographer unknown). Doug Berg: That looks to be taken in early 80's as the concourse was severed from.main building to accommodate hi cars on 4 lead. |
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| Gabe Wasylko Photography posted Friday Reflections in Downtown Cleveland, Ohio Joseph Casarona: With constant water main breaks, plenty of opportunities 😊 [The oil slick is probably more than he bargained for.] |
construction video, some scenes of concrete batching and digging caissons
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