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Image Title: Montgomery Union Station And Trainshed, Montgomery, Alabama, 2010

Creator: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer

Date: 2010 February 20.

Notes: Union Station was built by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and opened in 1898. Erected of brick and limestone on a high bluff along the Alabama River, the station also served passenger trains of Atlantic Coast Line, Western Railway of Alabama, Seaboard Air Line, Central of Georgia, and Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad. The station had six tracks under a 600 foot shed, with a coach yard on the south end of the station as well as a Railway Express Agency facility. The station's design segregated passengers by race and incorporated Romanesque Revival elements.

Subjects: America
Montgomery Union Station
Trains
United States--Alabama--Montgomery

Original Media: Photograph

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