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Re: (rshsdepot) New Orleans, LA

It seems there were three Union Stations...1st 1871, second 1891, third 1954
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From: Ulster & Delaware RR HS - President <stevdel_@_prodigy.net>
To: rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net <rshsdepot@lists.railfan.net>
Date: Sunday, May 12, 2002 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) New Orleans, LA


>    If anyone else has time to go look before I do, I recall that the
>building of the "new" NOLa Union Passenger Terminal around 1950 was
reported
>in a Trains Magazine of around then, with a map of the then-existing depots
>and alignments, and the new layout that would result, with a map of
>then-existing depots, entrances into the city, etc.
>    I didn't know there was a Richardson IC station that was knocked down
as
>part of the process -- it would give NOLa something in common with Boston,
>where the beautiful Richardson Riverside (Boston suburb) station on the B&A
>was blown away for the "modernized" MTA commuter line with PCC's that took
>over the service.  I was callow enough when it happened that I saw the
>pictures and thought it was "progress".   As one of our modern bards once
>said, "I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now" . ..(and he and
>I were both only about 25 when he said that, around  1968. . . )
>    Steve Delibert
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>From: Seth Bramson <sbramson_@_bellsouth.net>
>To: <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
>Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 4:20 PM
>Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) New Orleans, LA
>
>
>> Gene Paoli wrote:
>>
>> >I was under the impression that the IC station was replaced by the
>"current
>> >station", which according to the picture provided, did not resemble
>> >Sullivan's & Wright's station.
>
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>railroad structures at: http://www.rrshs.org
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