Terre Haute Union Station was a passenger train station located at Ninth Street and Spruce Street,

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, serving riders for nearly 67 years. It was completed on August 15, 1893, at the cost of $273,000. Union Station was designed by Cincinnati architect

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. The station was a three and a half story structure built in the Romanesque style. Originally, it served the

Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad The Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad was a Class I railroad that linked Chicago to southern Illinois, St. Louis, and Evansville. Founded in 1877, it grew aggressively and stayed relatively strong throughout the Great Depression and two Worl ...

and the

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(which was bought by the

Pennsylvania Railroad The Pennsylvania Railroad (reporting mark PRR), legal name The Pennsylvania Railroad Company also known as the "Pennsy", was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was named ...

three days after Union Station opened), as it was at the junction of the two lines.McCormick, Mike, ‘Terre Haute Tribune-Star,’ April 5, 2001, ‘Wabash Valley Profiles: Union Station.’ https://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/vchs/id/593 The station also served the

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(also known as the ‘Milwaukee Road’). The last Milwaukee Road service was a short line route to

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to the southeast. The company moved its last service out of the station in the 1930s. Barbara Carney, a railroad museum administrator, said that

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, and presidents

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and

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all stopped at Union Station at some point. The station was demolished in the middle of June, 1960, with a crowd of approximately 1,000 observing the event. For two decades in subsequent years, the building’s location was the site of the African American Culture Center at

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Named passenger trains serving Union Station

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Dixie Flagler The ''Dixie Flagler'' was a streamlined passenger train operated by the Florida East Coast Railway (FEC) between Chicago, Illinois and Miami, Florida. It began in 1939 as the ''Henry M. Flagler'', a regional service between Miami and Jacksonville, ...

''* (Chicago - Miami) **'' Dixie Flyer'' (Chicago - Jacksonville) **''

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'' (Chicago – Atlanta) **''

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'' (Chicago – New Orleans) *Pennsylvania Railroad, in 1953, daily departures:Pennsylvania Railroad timetable, August 6, 1950, Tables 10, 14 http://streamlinermemories.info/PRR/PRR50TT.pdf **''Allegheny'' (eastbound only) (St. Louis – New York) **''American'' (St. Louis – New York) **''Mail and Express'' (westbound only) (Pittsburgh – St. Louis) **''

Penn Texas The ''Penn Texas'' was a named passenger train of the Pennsylvania Railroad that ran from New York City's Pennsylvania Station to St. Louis' Union Station from 1948 to 1970. The train also had a branch from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to Washington, ...

'' (St. Louis – New York) **''

Spirit of St. Louis The ''Spirit of St. Louis'' (formally the Ryan NYP, registration: N-X-211) is the custom-built, single-engine, single-seat, high-wing monoplane that was flown by Charles Lindbergh on May 20–21, 1927, on the first solo nonstop transatlant ...

'' (St. Louis – New York) **''St. Louisan'' (St. Louis – New York)

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Cited by WTIU in 'Hometown: A Journey Through Terre Haute, Indiana'
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Terre Haute Terre Haute ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Vigo County, Indiana, United States, about 5 miles east of the state's western border with Illinois. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 60,785 and its metropolitan area had a ...

Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Former Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad stations Former Pennsylvania Railroad stations Former railway stations in Indiana Railway stations in the United States opened in 1893 Railway stations closed in 1960

Named passenger trains serving Union Station

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