Marion Union Station

Marion
The Lake Cities at Marion Union Station in 1969
General information
Location532 West Center Street, Marion, Ohio 43302
Coordinates40°35′22″N 83°08′26″W / 40.589370°N 83.140607°W / 40.589370; -83.140607
Line(s)Main Line (Kent Division)
Platforms6 side platforms
Tracks4
Other information
Station code5909 (Erie Railroad)[1]
History
OpenedJuly 31,1902[2]
ClosedJanuary 6, 1970 (Erie-Lackawanna Railroad)[3]
Former services
Preceding station Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Following station
Morral
toward Ludington
 Ludington – Athens Owens
toward Athens
Preceding station Erie Railroad Following station
De Cliff
toward Chicago
 Main Line Caledonia
toward Jersey City
Green Camp
toward Dayton
 Cincinnati Division Terminus
Preceding station New York Central Railroad Following station
Union City
toward St. Louis
 Big Four Route
Main Line
 Galion
toward Cleveland
Longville
toward St. Louis
 Caledonia
toward Cleveland

Marion Union Station is a former passenger railroad station at 532 W. Center Street in Marion, Ohio, United States. As a union station it served several train lines: the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway or CCC & St. L. (acquired in 1906 by the New York Central Railroad), and Erie Railroad (and its successor Erie Lackawanna Railroad). These lines intersected at the station, so it was a significant transfer point between different geographic points.

History

It was built in 1902 (opening on July 31),[2] it featured marble walls and patterned mosaic tiles on the floor. In 1923, it was the last stop on President Warren Harding's funeral train. It was a canteen stop for soldiers during World War II. It had its last long-distance train in 1971 with the end of the Chesapeake & Ohio's connector line to the George Washington.[4]

Into the 1960s, it was a stop for several long-distance passenger trains on the following railroads:[5][6][7][8]

Disposition today

Presently the station is the site of a museum run by the Marion Union Station Association.[4]

About 60 CSX and Norfolk Southern freight trains pass by each day.[9]

References

  1. ^ "List of Station Names and Numbers". Jersey City, New Jersey: Erie Railroad. May 1, 1916. Retrieved December 28, 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Railroad". The News-Forum. Bucyrus, Ohio. August 5, 1902. p. 3. Retrieved December 29, 2019 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  3. ^ "Erie Lackawanna Time Table – Effective June 15, 1969" (PDF). Erie Lackawanna Railway. June 15, 1969. Retrieved December 28, 2019.
  4. ^ a b MarionMade, January 17, 2018, 'Marion Union Station' http://www.marionmade.org/2018/01/marion-union-station/
  5. ^ Official Guide of the Railways, June 1961, Chesapeake and Ohio section
  6. ^ Official Guide of the Railways, June 1961, Erie Lackawanna section
  7. ^ New York Central timetable, July 1959, Table 17
  8. ^ New York Central timetable, April 1967, Table 6
  9. ^ Railfan Guides of the U.S.A., 'Marion , OH' https://www.railfanguides.us/oh/marion/