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{{Short description|Former train station in Terre Haute, Indiana}}
[[File:Terre Haute Union Station.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Terre Haute Union Station, {{circa|1910}}]]

'''Terre Haute Union Station''' was a passenger train station located at Ninth Street and Spruce Street, [[Terre Haute, Indiana]], 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 [[Samuel Hannaford]]. The station was a three and a half story structure built in the [[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque]] style. Originally, it served the [[Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad]] and the [[Vandalia Railroad (1905–1917)|Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad]] (which was bought by the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] three days after Union Station opened), as it was at the junction of the two lines.<ref name="wvp">McCormick, Mike, ‘Terre Haute Tribune-Star,’ April 5, 2001, ‘Wabash Valley Profiles: Union Station.’ https://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/vchs/id/593 </ref> The station also served the [[Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad]] (also known as the ‘Milwaukee Road’). The last Milwaukee Road service was a short line route to [[Bedford, Indiana]] to the southeast. The company moved its last service out of the station in the 1930s.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad |journal=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=64 |issue=9 |date=February 1932}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad |journal=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=71 |issue=3 |date=December 1938}}</ref>

Barbara Carney, a railroad museum administrator, said that [[Buffalo Bill]], [[Jack Benny]], and presidents [[Benjamin Harrison]], [[William McKinley]], [[Theodore Roosevelt]], [[William Howard Taft]], [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], [[Harry S. Truman]] and [[Richard Nixon]] all stopped at Union Station at some point.<ref>Powell, Dianne F.D., ‘Terre Haute Tribune-Star,’ October 2, 2014, ‘Railroad Industry Helped Put Terre Haute ‘on the map’.’ https://www.tribstar.com/news/local_news/railroad-industry-helped-put-terre-haute-on-the-map/article_4f9b47c1-f621-5079-aa4c-613402b81e8b.html</ref>

The station was demolished in the middle of June, 1960, with a crowd of approximately 1,000 observing the event.<ref>Shawn Rogers, ‘Terre Haute Tribune-Star,’ June 19, 2010, ‘Looking Back: 1960: Workers Dynamite the Union Station Tower.’ https://www.tribstar.com/news/lifestyles/looking-back-1960-workers-dynamite-the-union-station-tower/article_4ce0629d-017e-5f6a-a5c7-266672b98ee1.html</ref><ref name="wvp" /> For two decades in subsequent years, the building’s location was the site of the African American Culture Center at [[Indiana State University]].

==Named passenger trains serving Union Station==
*Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad, in 1954, daily departures, except where marked *:<ref>Louisville & Nashville timetable, Fall 1954, Tables E, F</ref>
**''[[Dixie Flagler]]''* (Chicago - Miami)
**''[[Dixie Flyer (train)|Dixie Flyer]]'' (Chicago - Jacksonville)
**''[[Georgian (train)|Georgian]]'' (Chicago – Atlanta)
**''[[Humming Bird (train)|Humming Bird]]'' (Chicago – New Orleans)

*Pennsylvania Railroad, in 1953, daily departures:<ref>{{cite journal |title=Pennsylvania Railroad, Table 152 |journal=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=86 |issue=7 |date=December 1953}}</ref><ref>Pennsylvania Railroad timetable, August 6, 1950, Tables 10, 14 http://streamlinermemories.info/PRR/PRR50TT.pdf</ref>
**''Allegheny'' (eastbound only) (St. Louis – New York)
**''American'' (St. Louis – New York)
**''Mail and Express'' (westbound only) (Pittsburgh – St. Louis)
**''[[Penn Texas]]'' (St. Louis – New York)
**''[[Spirit of St. Louis (train)|Spirit of St. Louis]]'' (St. Louis – New York)
**''St. Louisan'' (St. Louis – New York)
{{Adjacent stations|system1=Pennsylvania Railroad|line1=St. Louis-Columbus|left1=Farrington|right1=Prairie|system2=Milwaukee Road|line2=Terre Haute|left2=Fayette|right2=Dewey|system3=Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad|line3=Main|left3=Baker|right3=Dewey}}

==See also==
*[[Terre Haute station (Amtrak)]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://indianapublicmedia.org/hometown/description.html Cited by WTIU in 'Hometown: A Journey Through Terre Haute, Indiana']

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[[Category:Union stations in the United States|Terre Haute]]
[[Category:Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad]]
[[Category:Former Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad stations]]
[[Category:Former Pennsylvania Railroad stations]]
[[Category:Former railway stations in Indiana]]
[[Category:Railway stations in the United States opened in 1893]]
[[Category:Railway stations closed in 1960]]

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