Marion Union Station
Marion Union Station is a former passenger railroad station at 532 W. Center Street in Marion, Ohio. As a union station it served several train lines: the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway or CCC & St. L. (acquired in 1906 by the New York Central Railroad), and Erie Railroad (and its successor Erie Lackawanna Railroad). These lines intersected at the station, so it was a significant transfer point between different geographic points. It was built in 1902 (opening on July 31),[2] it featured marble walls and patterned mosaic tiles on the floor. In 1923 it was the last stop on president 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]
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.jpg.webp) The Lake Cities at Marion Union Station in 1969 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | 532 West Center Street, Marion, Ohio 43302 | |||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40.589370°N 83.140607°W | |||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Main Line (Kent Division) | |||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 6 side platforms | |||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 5909 (Erie Railroad)[1] | |||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | July 31,1902[2] | |||||||||||||||||
| Closed | January 6, 1970 (Erie-Lackawanna Railroad)[3] | |||||||||||||||||
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Into the 1960s it was a stop for several long distance passenger trains on the following railroads:[5][6][7][8]
- Chesapeake and Ohio
- Sportsman (Detroit, MI - Newport News and Washington, D.C., via Toledo, Columbus and Charlottesville); in last years a connector line for the George Washington
- Erie Railroad (and after 1960: Erie Lackawanna)
- Atlantic Express and Pacific Express (Chicago, IL - Hoboken, NJ)
- Erie Limited (Chicago, IL - Hoboken, NJ)
- Lake Cities (Chicago, IL - Hoboken, NJ)
- New York Central
- Cleveland Special / Gateway (St. Louis, MO - Cleveland, OH)
- Southwestern Limited (St. Louis, MO - New York, NY)
Disposition today
Presently the station is the site of a museum run by the Marion Union Station Association.[4]
About 60 CSX and Norfolk Southern freight trains pass by each day.[9]
References
- "List of Station Names and Numbers". Jersey City, New Jersey: Erie Railroad. May 1, 1916. Retrieved December 28, 2019.
- "Railroad". The News-Forum. Bucyrus, Ohio. August 5, 1902. p. 3. Retrieved December 29, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- "Erie Lackawanna Time Table – Effective June 15, 1969" (PDF). Erie Lackawanna Railway. June 15, 1969. Retrieved December 28, 2019.
- MarionMade, January 17, 2018, 'Marion Union Station' http://www.marionmade.org/2018/01/marion-union-station/
- Official Guide of the Railways, June 1961, Chesapeake and Ohio section
- Official Guide of the Railways, June 1961, Erie Lackawanna section
- New York Central timetable, July 1959, Table 17
- New York Central timetable, April 1967, Table 6
- Railfan Guides of the U.S.A., 'Marion , OH' https://www.railfanguides.us/oh/marion/