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St. Louis Union Stationis a National Historic Landmarkand former train station in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. At its 1894 opening, the station was the largest in the world. Traffic peaked at 100,000 people a day in the 1940s.[3] The last Amtrakpassenger train left the station in 1978. In the 1980s, it was renovated as a hotel, shopping ...
Gateway Transportation CenterSt. Louis, MO. / 38.62417°N 90.20361°W / 38.62417; -90.20361. The Gateway Multimodal Transportation Center, also known as Gateway Station, is a rail and bus terminal station in the Downtown West neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. Opened in 2008 and operating 24 hours a day, it serves Amtrak trains and ...
MetroLink (St. Louis) MetroLink ( reporting mark BSDA) is a light rail system that serves the Greater St. Louis area. Operated by Metro Transit in a shared fare system with MetroBus, [ 7] the two-line, 38-station system runs from St. Louis Lambert International Airport and Shrewsbury in Missouri to Scott Air Force Base in Illinois. Intermediate ...
Benton Barracks (or Camp Benton) was a Union Army military encampment, established during the American Civil War, in St. Louis, Missouri, at the present site of the St. Louis Fairground Park. Before the Civil War, the site was owned and used by the St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association, which at the time was located on the outskirts ...
A Lincoln Service train passing through 35th/Archer station in McKinley Park, Chicago, July 2023. The Lincoln Service is a 284-mile (457 km) higher-speed rail service operated by Amtrak that runs between Chicago, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri. The train is a part of the Illinois Service and is partially funded by the Illinois Department of ...
History of St. Louis. The history of St. Louis, Missouri, from 1866 to 1904 was marked by rapid growth. Its population increased, making it the country's fourth-largest city after New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago. [ 1] It also saw rapid development of heavy industry, infrastructure, and transportation.
St. Louis Union Station. Completed in 1894, the Romanesque St. Louis Union Station was designed by Theodore Link, who also designed the Mississippi state capitol building in Jackson.
Union Station (MetroLink) / 38.626621; -90.206846. Union Station is a light rail station on the Red and Blue lines of the St. Louis MetroLink system. [2] This below-grade station is located partially within the former baggage tunnel beneath historic St. Louis Union Station near 18th Street at its intersection with Clark Avenue.