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Dallas Union Station, officially Eddie Bernice Johnson Union Station (or simply EBJ Union Station), also known as Dallas Union Terminal, is a large intermodal railroad station in
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. It is the third busiest Amtrak station in Texas, behind
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, and San Antonio station. It serves
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,
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, and
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. It is located on
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, between Wood and Young Streets, in the Reunion district of
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. The structure is a Dallas Landmark and is listed on the
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.


Services

The station is served by Amtrak's ''
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'' with
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as the eastern terminus and either
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or
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as the western terminus. The light rail station serves as a stop on the and lines as well as the . Union Station is the northern terminus of the Dallas Streetcar and provides access to the
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bus terminal, the George Allen Courts Building, Dealey Plaza, the
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at Reunion and
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. The first floor is occupied by an Amtrak ticketing window, waiting room, and privately rented offices. The second floor contains the restored Grand Hall and several meeting rooms named after railroads that previously serviced Dallas. The second floor and a mezzanine are operated by
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Catering. Connecting DART Bus Routes are , , , , , , , and .


History

The Union Terminal Company constructed the Dallas Union Terminal, as Union Station was originally called, in 1916 to consolidate five rail stations scattered around Dallas into one, making Dallas a major transportation center in the Southern United States. At the peak of its usage, as many as 80 trains stopped each day at the station. It was designed by
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, who designed other large train stations. Railroads served by the station included
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway , often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the larger railroads in the United States. The railroad was chartered in February 1859 to serve the cities of Atchison, Kansas, Atchison and Top ...
('Santa Fe'), St. Louis Southwestern Railway ('Cotton Belt'), Fort Worth & Denver Railway,
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (CRI&P RW, sometimes called ''Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway'') was an American Class I railroad. It was also known as the Rock Island Line, or, in its final years, The Rock. At the end ...
('Rock Island'),
Burlington-Rock Island Railroad The Burlington-Rock Island Railroad came into existence on July 7, 1930, through the reorganization of its predecessor, the Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway Company (T&BV), nicknamed the "Boll Weevil Line."St. Louis and San Francisco Railway ('Frisco'),
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('Katy'), Southern Pacific Railroad and Texas & Pacific Railway. In 1954, the building served as a temporary library while the
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system built a new central library to replace the original Carnegie Library. Originally, the 2nd level waiting room was connected to train platforms via an overhead walkway, but this design was never popular with travelers as they needed to climb a large number of stairs.
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s were added, but the Grand Hall was finally abandoned in favor of renovated ticketing and a waiting room on the ground floor (still in use today). Also, an underground corridor replaced the overhead walkway, with ramps at each platform. Despite Dallas' status as the second most populous city of the state at the time, the Dallas Union station was eclipsed in some regard by Fort Worth Union station. For example, the Rock Island Railroad's ''
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'' from Minneapolis terminated at Fort Worth, not at Dallas. The Santa Fe Railroad's ''
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'' from Chicago also took its route through Fort Worth, en route to Houston. The last privately owned passenger train to serve Union Station, the
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's ''
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,'' left on May 31, 1969. When it began in the spring of 1971, Amtrak initially consolidated most of its Metroplex service at Fort Worth, but planned to introduce service to Dallas once improvements were made at Union Terminal, which it considered outdated. With those improvements, Amtrak service began on March 14, 1974, with the '' Inter-American'' between St. Louis and Laredo; the train evolved into today's ''
Texas Eagle The ''Texas Eagle'' is a daily passenger train route operated by Amtrak between Chicago and San Antonio in the central and western United States. Prior to 1988, the train was known as the ''Eagle''. Trains #21 (southbound) and 22 (northbound) ...
.'' From 1975 to 1981, the station was also served by the '' Lone Star,'' a descendant of an old Santa Fe mainstay, the ''
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.'' DART's light-rail service began at the station on June 14, 1996. The station's upper-level waiting room was repurposed into meeting and convention space for the
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, which is connected via an underground walkway. In October 2016, the Dallas City Council renamed the station to Eddie Bernice Johnson Union Station in honor of U.S. Representative
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. In April 2019, DART approved the new name and held a dedication ceremony. It is mostly referred to as EBJ Union Station.


Murals

In 1934, as part of the federally sponsored
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, Jerry Bywaters and Alexander Hogue were granted the first commission in Texas to create a series of 10 murals depicting events in Dallas history. They had painted them on the walls of the second-floor lobby at the old Dallas City Hall Building, located on Harwood Street between
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and Commerce Streets. In 1954, the original murals were destroyed when City Hall relocated. When the station was renovated to accommodate light rail usage, the murals were partially recreated by Phillip Lamb along the train platforms at Union Station.


See also

*
National Register of Historic Places listings in Dallas County, Texas This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Dallas County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Dallas County, Texas. There ar ...
* Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in Dallas County *
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References


External links


Union Station – Dallas Area Rapid TransitUnion Station – Trinity Railway ExpressUnion Station – Wolfgang Puck event venue
, from Amtrak's ''Texas Eagle'' website

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