St Louis Union Station in 1956

bobyar2001 · **Posted:** Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:22 am

Long before today's festival marketplace. That huge shed could have sheltered lots of equipment.

http://abpr.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi?a ... anColl.jpg

Frisco1522 · **Posted:** Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:38 am

And now there's loony talk by Union Station management of pulling up the remaining tracks. Guys, it's a RR station, remember?

p51 · **Posted:** Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:47 pm

I'm pretty sure that this doubled as "Grand Central Station" for John Carpenter's movie, "Escape from New York."
Even as a kid, I thought it was funny to have the former NYC station way in the future, with a couple of non-Amtrak passengers coaches sitting on it's tracks, one of the a GM&O one!