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Union station

Three routes flowed into it: Pražská spojovací dráha (the Prague Connecting Railroad, 1872), the extension of Buštěhradská dráha from Hostivice (1872) and Pražsko-duchcovská dráha (the Railroad PragueDuchcov, 1873).


880 West Broadway

Located on the northeastern corner of Broadway and Pacific Highway and adjacent to Union Station, 880 West Broadway will be a prominent structure in the skyline of San Diego once completed.

Chinatown, Los Angeles

After thirty years of decay, a Supreme Court ruling approved condemnation of the area to allow for construction of a major rail terminal, Union Station.

Civic Center, Los Angeles

The Civic Center is served by numerous Metro buses, most of which run to adjacent Union Station, the 101 and 110 freeways, and the Metro Red Line and Purple Line's Civic Center Station are also in the vicinity.

CN York Subdivision

Prior to the construction of the York Sub, CN traffic ran through the downtown core along the CN Kingston Subdivision and through the Union Station area.

CNR Spadina Roundhouse

The purpose of Spadina Roundhouse, was to pre-trip inspect, service and repair the motive power of passenger trains, including locomotives and Budd Rail Diesel Cars terminating, or originating at Toronto Union Station.

Force of Arms

It reteamed William Holden and Nancy Olson in the third of their four movies together (Sunset Boulevard, Union Station, and Submarine Command being the others), all released in 1950 or 1951.

History of LACMTA

Initially, the LACMTA retained the locations of the predecessor agencies in Downtown Los Angeles, but later moved to the 25-story Gateway Plaza Building adjacent to historic Union Station in 1995 with former SCRTD staff occupying the lower half of the tower and former LACTC staff occupying the upper half demonstrating that old hostilities were still present after the merge.

Joliet Union Station

The Rock Island line runs via Blue Island, Illinois to LaSalle Street Station (track owned by Metra), while the Metra Heritage Corridor line runs via Summit, Illinois to Chicago's Union Station (track owned by Canadian National).

National Community Church

On November 17, 1996, NCC held its first service in the AMC Theatres at Union Station, located four blocks from the United States Capitol.

Ohio Penitentiary

The Burnham Square Condominiums, named after urban planner and architect Daniel Burnham, who designed Columbus's Union Station, and the Nationwide Arena now stand on the site of the former penitentiary.

Railway Lands

The first railway, Ontario, Simcoe and Huron (OS&H) arrived in Toronto in 1853 with a station located near the current Union Station.

Regional Transportation District

It is a 1.8-mile (2.9-km) branch with four stations that provides light rail access to numerous venues, including the Auraria Campus, Invesco Field at Mile High, Pepsi Center, Elitch Gardens, Union Station and Coors Field.

Shenandoah Valley

The rail lines are primarily used for freight transportation, though Maryland Area Rail Commuter (MARC) trains utilize the old B&O line from stations in Martinsburg, Duffields, and Harper's Ferry to Washington Union Station and vice-versa.

Union Station Bus Terminal

The Union Station Bus Terminal is part of GO Transit's facilities at Union Station in downtown Toronto, which is the hub for GO Transit's commuter rail service.

Winfred J. Sanborn

Also during Sanborn's time as acting mayor, the Supreme Court gave authority to the State Railroad Commission to require the three railroads serving Los Angeles to collectively build one Union Station, which greatly improved traffic by eliminating twenty grade crossings and all train traffic from Alameda Street.


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Beltline Trail

The east loop started at Union Station, running east until turning north along the Don River, passing the Don Valley Brickworks, up through Moore Park Ravine and along the northern edge of Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

Brightwood, Springfield, Massachusetts

Brightwood is scheduled to receive a stop on Springfield's new, northbound, intercity commuter rail, headquartered at Union Station and headed north through Chicopee, Holyoke, Northampton, South Deerfield, and Greenfield, to Brattleboro, Vermont.

Château Laurier

Château Laurier was commissioned by Grand Trunk Railway president Charles Melville Hays, and was constructed for $2 million, between 1909 and 1912 in tandem with Ottawa's downtown Union Station (now the Government Conference Centre) across the street.

Chris Vallillo

The show ran for seven years, and featured such luminaries as Bob Gibson, John Hartford, Alison Krause and Union Station, John Gorka, Tom Russel, Tish Hinojosa, The Austin Lounge Lizards, Norman and Nancy Blake, John McKuen and Trout Fishing in America... among others.

Indianapolis Union Station

The Grand Hall of Union Station is also rented out for banquets and other special events, such as a Magic: The Gathering prerelease party.

Jimmy Haslip

In 2001, Haslip performed at a benefit concert for Union Station Foundation, a Pasadena, California-based organization for the homeless, alongside actors Hector Elizondo and Jeff Goldblum.

John W. Olver Transit Center

Currently, Peter Pan Bus Lines and Greyhound Lines intercity bus service to Greenfield stops at the Olver Center and is a proposed passenger rail station on the rerouted Amtrak Vermonter line, currently serving communities from Union Station in Washington, DC to St. Albans, Vermont.

Merry Christmas, Alex Cross

Ned uses Skype to show Hala that if she does not explain what she was doing at Union Station her children and mother may be injured or even killed by the Saudi secret police.

Metropolitan Branch Trail

At Fort Totten a connector trail to the Northwest Branch Trail of the Anacostia Tributary Trail System at Hyattsville, Maryland will be constructed; and an on-street connection to the National Mall will be constructed from Union Station.

Michi Munoz

Munoz turned professional in June 2004, winning his first fight at Union Station, Kansas City, Missouri, USA, in which Munoz beat American fighter Lance Moody on the undercard of the Jesse Sanders v Donny McCrary fight.

New Brunswick Route 1

However, the city, along with the provincial and federal governments, decided to bargain with the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) to purchase the majority of the Mill Street Yard near the neo-gothic Union Station for a highway alignment which would run through the middle of the city (somewhat like the infamous Interstate 93 alignment which was built through Boston).

New London Union Station

Beginning in 2010, Union Station was considered a possible site for the United States Coast Guard Museum, which would have added a glass atrium north of the main station building as well as a pedestrian bridge over the tracks to a second waterfront building.

NYC P Motor

In the 1920s the Van Sweringen brothers conceived of a new "Union" station for all trains coming into Cleveland via the various railroad lines in a concept similar to New York City's Grand Central Terminal.

San Bernardino Line

After leaving Union Station and crossing the Los Angeles River the line follows the San Bernardino Freeway and El Monte Busway until just after the Cal State L.A. station; it then runs in the median of the San Bernardino Freeway to the El Monte Station.

SkyWalk

Directly adjacent to the Canadian National Express Building and Union Station is the York Street Teamway, running above York Street and is also part of the SkyWalk and also a heritage listed property.