Name That Station!

[RampWidget]

Taylor, Texas! (I Remember it Well! ) Technically it's the UP District Hdqs with Amtrak having a Picnic Table with a Shed on the Other End as the "Station!"(you can see the Tin Roof in the Pic!!)

If Correct, I can't Post Pics so it's Open to anyone with an Easy One! ^_^

And Jim is correct! I figured if anyone would get this one quickly, it would be you, Jim! :hi:

That is indeed the "freight end" of the "station complex" at Taylor, TX.

As JIm says, the floor is open to the first one to post.

 

[MrFSS]

OK - I'll try another one. I have removed the station name off the window, but the door is as it was the last time I saw it, at a Gathering!

 

[Bob Dylan]

Union Station in Chicago????

 

[the_traveler]

Louisville - when it was served by the Kentucky Cardinal! :giggle:

 

[MrFSS]

Not Chicago and not Louisville. Remember - it was a Gathering station.

 

[Bob Dylan]

Philadelphia 30th Street????? (St. Louis is too New/King St. in Seattle was under Rehab and i didnt get to go to the Gatherings in BOS and LAX!!!)

 

[AmtrakBlue]

PHL?

 

[MrFSS]

West of the Mississippi.

 

[tp49]

San Diego?

 

[Notelvis]

Late to the party but I'm going to guess Los Angeles. In the window I think I can see reflections of a palm tree, a Santa Fe style arch, and a high-rise.

Could be San Diego but as that has already been guessed, I'll hedge my bets and go with LAX.

 

[Shanghai]

Oakland, CA

 

[MrFSS]

Oakland, CA

Nope - we haven't been to Oakland, yet, during a Gathering. But you are getting closer.

 

[MrFSS]

San Diego?

Yep = It is the Surfliner District office in the grand old SAN Station.

Your Turn.

 

[the_traveler]

and not Louisville. Remember - it was a Gathering station.

Right, and as I recall, not many "gathered" for the Kentucky Cardinal either!

 

[Notelvis]

and not Louisville. Remember - it was a Gathering station.

Right, and as I recall, not many "gathered" for the Kentucky Cardinal either!

I gathered for the Kentucky Cardinal.

I made two roundtrips and an additional one-way journey during it's short life for mostly sentimental purposes.

My mother grew up in Louisville and when I was a young child a favorite aunt there would take me down to 'see the trains' at Louisville Union Station when we would visit. This was late 60's/early 70's. I remember seeing L&N's 'Pan American' and Amtrak's 'Floridian' both come and go BUT by the time I was old enough to be out making my own trips on the 'Floridian' Amtrak had moved out for it's short affair with Auto-Train way out on National Turnpike.

The Kentucky Cardinal, as short-lived as it was, finally gave me the opportunity to arrive and depart at Louisville Union Station on a scheduled passenger train!

 

[tp49]

I don't have the ability to post pictures so I open the floor to whomever wishes to put one up.

 

[AmtrakBlue]

Sorry, couldn't resist.

 

[Ryan]

That's Dave's backyard, right?

 

[AmtrakBlue]

That's Dave's backyard, right?

We have a winner. I thought I could fool you by hiding the TPS.

:giggle:

 

[Swadian Hardcore]

Is that actually Dave's backyard or is this another inside joke?

 

[amtrakwolverine]

I'll post on tp49s behalf. Name this former amtrak station.

 

[Notelvis]

Just to start things rolling, I'm going to guess Northampton, MA.

 

[savoirfaire]

Sandwich, MA.

 

[amtrakwolverine]

Sandwich is correct. Your turn to post.

 

[railbuck]

Is that actually Dave's backyard or is this another inside joke?

Based on the grass and trees, I'd say it's more of an outside joke.