whats in your opinion is the best train station in the USA?. I’ve been to a number of train stations in my trips to america and I really love union station in Los Angeles and Albuquerque.

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  3. Grand Central and DC Union Station are the two obvious ones.

    They both are amazing buildings and are still vitally important transportation hubs.

  4. There’s one I live across from that actually has an absolutely gorgeous view of fields, hills, and a creek that transitions to a river.

    Rather not name it just because of proximity

  5. Union Station in LA is really neat and a very different style from most US train stations.

    The current Atlanta Amtrak station is probably the saddest excuse for a major city’s intercity rail station.

  8. The Durham Museum, which is a former Union Station, dwarfs the actual Omaha Amtrak station in every way.

  10. Grand Central in NYC is stunning.

    But 30th Street Station in Philly (where Amtrak goes) is also stunning. I think that’s a close second.

  15. The New Orleans train station is simple but has amazing depression-era murals. There’s nuns and waltzing skeletons and scenes of plague and starvation and the horrors of colonization, all in between the bathrooms and vending machine.

    New Haven used to be my favorite small station, though, purely for the sound of the departure board as the numbers clicked over. They replaced it with screens a few years ago in a very sad downgrade.

  16. As someone who grew up in a state where rail travel is inefficient and therefore uncommon, the only station I can think the name of, let alone think of how it looks, is Grand Central. Rail travel is really only for places with multiple cities in a smaller region, or for tourists.

  18. Grand Central in NYC for its ornate architecture and historical significance.

    I recently visited Denver for the first time, and Union Station there is really lovely.

  20. Cincinnati’s train station is inside our natural history and children’s museum. Pretty cool

  21. Is Penn Station a station or just a sandwich shop? Seriously I dunno, I’m 38 and I’ve never once been to a train station in the USA. I’ve used them overseas but not in the US.

  25. Grand Central and DC Union Station are the best ones I’ve been to, but I’m familiar with what LA Union Station looks like and it’s beautiful.

    For smaller stations, Richmond Main Street is really cool. Beautiful 120-year-old station, renovated and reopened 20 years ago, with great views of the city.

  27. The great hall in union station in Chicago is beautiful. The stairs to canal street until recently were original and you could see the wear 80 years of train goers had put on them. If you’ve seen the baby carriage scene in the untouchables they were slimed on those steps

  28. To add to the comments so far, I’ll add Union Station in Kansas City for a lesser known, but worthwhile addition

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