I don't know of any examples of just Union Station. There's Denver Union
Station (owned and operated by the Denver Union Terminal Co.), Chicago Union
Station, Salina Union Depot in Kansas, Pueblo Union Depot in Colorado, Los
Angeles Union Passenger Terminal in California, Salt Lake Union Depot in
Utah, etc.
Here in Colorado the Boulder depot was owned by the Colorado & Southern,
the agent and the clerk were CS employees (later BN employees) but the Union
Pacific paid a portion, though I don't know what the formula was, straight
percentage, percent of cars waybilled through each railroad, or what.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John N Shankland" <jns@i...>
To: <BRHSlist@egroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 5:50 PM
Subject: RE: [BRHSlist] Question Re Chicago Union Station
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> > You've raised an interesting question. Union Stations occurred
> > when two or
> > more railroads joined together with a common station. There were
> > (and still
> > are) depots that are joint facilities of two or more railroads
> > which aren't
> > referred to as Union Stations. Quite often (perhaps always)
> > Union Stations
> > were operated by a jointly-owned subsidiary corporation, whereas joint
> > agencies didn't have a separate corporate existence.
>
> Interesting that they all picked the same name, or that it was allowed.
The
> ??/?? railroads were allowed to name their place Union Station in
Cincinnati
> for example. You would think that who ever had the name first would have
> objected to the next guys naming theirs the same. It made me think that
> maybe there was a Union Station Company that was involved. Found the land,
> built the building, sold, leased, whatever to a group of railroads.
>
> Seems peculiar also that ( or at least by todays practices) that the RR's
> consented to a station name that didn't include their names. Could it be
> that they rented space or paid fees like the Airlines do? O'Hare is owned
> by the City of Chicago, hence no United Airlines in the name.
>
> John S
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