Sujet
Switch yards and Union Station, St Louis, Missouri, USA, 1910. Artist: Unknown
Légende
Switch yards and Union Station, St Louis, Missouri, USA, 1910. Vintage postcard. Dozens of rail cars are visible on the multiple tracks and a road bridge crosses over the yard. Opened in 1894, St Louis' Union Station became the world's largest and busiest railway station, handling 100,000 passengers a day in the 1940s. As passenger rail travel declined in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, the vast station became obsolete and expensive to maintain, and the last train departed in 1978. In the 1980s Union Station was redeveloped as a hotel, shopping and entertainment complex.
Curt Teich Postcard Archives
Date
2010
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Curt Teich Postcard Archives
Notre référence
HRM19D83_260
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
40,0Mo (3,7Mo) / 39,7cm x 25,2cm / 4692 x 2980 (300dpi)