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Joseph T. Ryerson and Sons
Have you ever wondered about the old ghost signs on buildings around downtown Cincinnati? How about the signs on old buildings that are still thriving after all these years? Maybe you have seen the front – or back – of the Ryerson building, just one of the Cincinnati companies that made the rails possible. Cincinnati is still, after all one of the largest train hubs in the U.S.!
Can anyone share a little more info about Ryerson and their role in Cincinnati history?
Before the days of private jets, athletes traveled by train. In fact, teams didn’t move west of St. Louis until the late forties when air travel was coming into vogue. Imagine what life would have been like back then as a kid… Heading out of town for summer vacation to visit relatives and running into your favorite all-star outfielder.
These placards were used by major league baseball teams to gather the players prior to hopping the freight to their next road series.
Votto on the rails to St. Louis? Happened all the time until the mid fifties! Kids could just hang out at Cincinnati Union Terminal and wait to see their teams come to play, or even just roll through town to their next home stand.
Union Terminal Project Management
Back when I was but a wee pup, we did project management the hard way – with Microsoft Project! Printing out a gantt chart took many, many minutes. Back in the day of Union Terminal’s construction, the architects drew their gantt charts by hand, just like their blueprints.
The construction project was so controlled and disciplined, they even had a project font created specifically for blueprints and planning. The planners even created an ‘expected mortality’ chart to estimate the loss of life during construction (which we also hear was extremely minimal, thank goodness).
Take that, six sigma!
More planning and construction photos can be seen in the galleries. Please feel free to look around, comment and ask questions. Our club experts are standing by…
OK, so technically they are in front of the building. The Cincinnati Union Terminal construction was one of the largest earthworks projects in the region. While most people consider...
Cincinnati Union Terminal Company executives, architects and contractors
Back in the days of the Terminal planning and construction, men wore suits, people smoked at meetings and donuts were conspicuously missing from the center of the room. These were the executives who made the decisions that shaped the building and grounds. More of these photos can be seen in the galleries. Click here to view images from the recently posted volume 11 from the Gibson Yungblut collection.
This is a great perspective of Cincinnati Union Terminal, captured from one of the passenger platforms. No one really gets to see Union Terminal from this vantage point anymore,...
Cincinnati Union Terminal boasts many great architectural features – and the clock on the façade is no exception. It’s large enough that it can be seen from I-75 today....
Funny how the tours of Tower A never talk about the little men under the control desk, running everything! (How do they feed them?) Seriously, though – the guys...
The Cincinnati Union Terminal project was one of the biggest earthworks programs in the region. The $41,000,000 project moved 5,663,065 cubic yards of fill from a local hill called Bald Knob and a farm in Indiana to raise the level of the station and train yard an average of 16 feet.
Most people these days associate the building of the terminal with the main building with the beautiful rotunda. In reality, the project stretched 287 acres from the river to two miles north along the Mill Creek Valley and included 22 buildings as well as the construction of the Western Hills Viaduct.
