RAILROAD UNION TERMINALS AND

PASSENGER STATIONS BEFORE THE C.U.T.

The Cleveland Union Terminal was neither the last passenger station built in Cleveland, nor even a true "union" terminal. It did replace the separate passenger stations of some of the lines entering Cleveland, but not all, most notably that of the Pennsylvania Railroad. A grand union station was an important component in Daniel H. Burnham's Group Plan of 1903, but was never built on the lakefront Mall, as planned. The C.U.T. went to Public Square instead and the Amtrak station now sits on the approximate site of that planned station. Here are some images of the stations of individual lines entering Cleveland and the city's union stations, actual or planned.

"UNION" PASSENGER STATIONS:

• The Union Passenger Depot of 1864, on the lakefront.

• The proposed union passenger station from the Group Plan of 1903.

• The C.U.T. without the Terminal Tower.

• AMTRAK station (current)

PASSENGER STATIONS OF INDIVIDUAL RAILROADS:

Address comments to:

BACK to the C.U.T. home page

Last updated December 7, 1996