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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...
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.
Truck frames on a flat car in the train yard at Cincinnati Union Terminal
How did the truck cross the road? By rail of course!
So that’s how they do it. Turns out that moving truck parts by rail is much more efficient than burning tankfuls of diesel gasoline…
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.
This matchbook cover from the Cincinnati Railroad Club’s collection shows Chessie, the spokescat for C&O Railroad, snuggled up in what is presumably a sleeping car. Viennese artist Guido Gruenwald did...