Marion Union Station

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Coordinates: 40°35′22″N 83°08′26″W / 40.589370°N 83.140607°W / 40.589370; -83.140607
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Marion
Erie-Lackawanna Railroad)[3]
Former services
Preceding station Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Following station
Morral
toward Ludington
 Ludington – Athens Owens
toward Athens
Preceding station Erie Railroad Following station
De Cliff
toward Chicago
 Main Line Caledonia
toward Jersey City
Green Camp
toward Dayton
 Cincinnati Division Terminus
Preceding station New York Central Railroad Following station
St. Louis
 Big Four Route
Main Line
 Galion
toward Cleveland
St. Louis
 Caledonia
toward Cleveland

Marion Union Station is a former passenger railroad station at 532 W. Center Street in

Erie Lackawanna Railroad
). These lines intersected at the station, so it was a significant transfer point between different geographic points.

History

It was built in 1902 (opening on July 31),

Warren Harding's funeral train. It was a canteen stop for soldiers during World War II. It had its last long-distance train in 1971 with the end of the Chesapeake & Ohio's connector line to the George Washington.[4]

Into the 1960s, it was a stop for several long-distance passenger trains on the following railroads:[5][6][7][8]

Disposition today

Presently the station is the site of a museum run by the Marion Union Station Association.[4]

About 60

Norfolk Southern freight trains pass by each day.[9]

References

  1. ^ "List of Station Names and Numbers". Jersey City, New Jersey: Erie Railroad. May 1, 1916. Retrieved December 28, 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Railroad". The News-Forum. Bucyrus, Ohio. August 5, 1902. p. 3. Retrieved December 29, 2019 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  3. ^ "Erie Lackawanna Time Table – Effective June 15, 1969" (PDF). Erie Lackawanna Railway. June 15, 1969. Retrieved December 28, 2019.
  4. ^ a b MarionMade, January 17, 2018, 'Marion Union Station' http://www.marionmade.org/2018/01/marion-union-station/
  5. ^ Official Guide of the Railways, June 1961, Chesapeake and Ohio section
  6. ^ Official Guide of the Railways, June 1961, Erie Lackawanna section
  7. ^ New York Central timetable, July 1959, Table 17
  8. ^ New York Central timetable, April 1967, Table 6
  9. ^ Railfan Guides of the U.S.A., 'Marion , OH' https://www.railfanguides.us/oh/marion/
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