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Cincinnati History Preservation Project • 70 + Years • 7 Major Railroads • 70,000 Treasures
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Flew into Warsaw, Poland recently on a combination business & pleasure trip. I’d lived here for 13 months with my wife a few years ago, so I was familiar...
Going up or coming down? Bridge and viaduct construction was an integral part of the Union Terminal construction project
Going up or coming down? Over the last 70+ years, the landmark has been the subject of wonder, awe and unfortunately from time to time, of thoughts to tear it down and reclaim the land for other uses.
The Cincinnati Union Terminal building has had a couple of lives– in service of trains, as a shopping mall and now as the Cincinnati Museum Center.
The construction of the Terminal was a one time thing in our history. Never before or again will opportunity, need, art and function come together to shape our surroundings.
Could we build a stadium for $41,000,000.00? An airport?
As one railroad club member is fond of saying, maybe a lane of highway. Even if we had put away that money in the 1920′s with inflation and interest, the cost of building a landmark like the Cincinnati Union Terminal could not be repeated.
Capturing the history of the building, rail history and the effect this had on Cincinnati is a legacy we need to capture and share–to preserve our memories for our children before they fade…
Please consider how you can help, by sharing memories here in the comments sections, by volunteering or donating.
Thanks~!
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....
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.
Like Chicago, Cincinnati has two seasons, winter and construction! If you have noticed lately, big piles of ties have started appearing all over the city next to our railways....
“Union Terminal…. That’s that building shaped like the old radio, right? Isn’t it just museums now, or something?” Or something – the rail yards at Cincinnati Union Terminal are...
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This control board allowed rail personnel to slow the speed of cars being coupled off the ‘hump’ – a man-made hill built up where gravity could do most of...