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In 1914, this IC depot replaced two other IC depots. One was located here, and the other was down by their
Walker Street Shops."Over the years, Central Station was also served by the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway. After the initial abandonment of Union Station in 1964, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad also rerouted its trains to Central Station for a couple of years. By the time newly-created Amtrak took over most of the nation’s intercity passenger rail service in 1971, its daily City of New Orleans (Chicago-Memphis-New Orleans) was the only passenger train serving Memphis.....After acquiring ownership of the property, the Memphis Area Transportation Authority (MATA) broke ground in 1998 on an ambitious $23.2 million campaign, funded in large part through a federal grant." The station's renovation also renovated the neighborhood. The hotel was opened in 2019. (For future reference, the Union Station was a few blocks east where the
post office now stands.) [
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The streetcar-like tracks are used by a downtown trolley system. I use the "rrInterurban" label for all light-rail services such as interurban, streetcars, "L"'s, subways and modern light rail. And now I use it for rail-based trolleys.
As expected, the Grand Hall is now an event space.
And this must be what they refer to as the Waiting Room. Other photos indicate that it was a hall in the concourse.
Weddings aren't the only events that help pay for the building.
Is this a "before" photo of the Grand Hall? The 2018 date would before the building was remodelled to be a hotel. It looks like it was bigger and had natural lighting.
No, this would be today's Grand Hall. So what was and is the above room?
Since the area was segregated when this station was built, it not only had two waiting rooms, it had two entrances. [
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I did a quick look to confirm that at least part of a smokestack was preserved. Central Station is in the left background.
Is this today's Waiting Room. The hotel remodelling made a point of retaining the neon signs.
This confirms that the above concourse hall is now the Waiting Room. We are looking down the staircase that is on the left in the above photo.
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More Waiting Room.
They also bragged about restoring the arrival/departure board.
Amtrak got moved to a space that is closer to the trains.
And they also use a space that looks like it is in the basement? Or did they recently get moved to this cramped space because they lost the above space?
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