Notice the fence and automatic gates surrounding the structure today. These are fairly new additions (10 years or so) due to a declining neighborhood. Sure am glad Mr. Norman called attention to this structure.
bratkinson wrote: ↑Sun Aug 18, 2019 6:32 pm I had forgotten about the South Shore station at South Bend.Can we verify this? Wiki says Amtrak moved in 1971 to Bendix station, and I seem to agree with that. I'm not aware that Amtrak ever stopped at Union Station.
BUT....
When that was built, Penn Central did NOT stop there! They stopped at the downtown South Bend station. Amtrak stopped downtown too, for quite some time.
So, my thinking the new Union Station in Milwaukee, which opened in 1968 as I recall, would be the last one built before Amtrak and Amtrak has
called there since day one.
I'm actually a bit surprised that PC didn't move to Bendix in 1970, there were few trains going through SBUS and it's huge. Not worth the money to maintain for them, although I'm glad it survived.