Posted by Dean on February 12, 2010 at 04:54:29 from (67.172.13.37):
In Reply to: Detroit Landmark posted by MarkB_MI on February 11, 2010 at 17:36:07:
What a tragedy.
The iconic art deco Union Central Terminal in Cincinnati was saved from the wrecking ball 35 or 40 years ago and renovated into a museum.
As a small child of 4 or 5, I remember riding in my Fathers 1947 Pontiac to Union Central to pick up my Grandmother who came in on the train from Iowa to visit.
Knowing that the era of steam was ending, a kind hearted official allowed my Mother to take my two brothers and I down to the tracks beneath the station to see the trains.
I can still remember the engineer who lifted me into the cab of his NYC 4-6-4 Hudson building up steam in preparation to blast the James Whitcomb Riley across Indiana to Chicago. He stepped on the air switch to open the firebox door so that my older brother and I could look inside. To a small child it looked like the gates of hell.
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