Union Station (South Bend, Indiana)

South Bend Union Station
Exterior of Union Station
Location	326 West South Street South Bend, Indiana
Coordinates	41°40′9.59″N 86°15′17.10″W / 41.6693306°N 86.2547500°WCoordinates: 41°40′9.59″N 86°15′17.10″W / 41.6693306°N 86.2547500°W
Platforms	3
Tracks	5
Construction
Structure type	Art Deco architecture
History
Opened	1929
Closed	1971
Services
Former services   Preceding station   New York Central Railroad   Following station Lydick toward Chicago Water Level Route Mishawaka toward New York City North Liberty toward Zearing Kankakee Belt Route Terminus Lydick toward St. Joseph St. Joseph – South Bend Niles toward Benton Harbor Benton Harbor – South Bend

Union Station opened in 1929 in South Bend, Indiana in the United States. Situated across the tracks from the Studebaker auto plant, the building served the New York Central Railroad and Grand Trunk Western Railroad. It was designed by the architectural firm Fellheimer & Wagner.^[1] NYC's Detroit-Chicago "Great Steel Fleet" and GTW's Chicago-Canada trains used this station. When the New York Central merged with the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1968 to make the Penn Central Transportation Company, it used the station as well. The last trains departed in 1971 when newly created Amtrak moved its operations to another station, the South Bend Amtrak Station on the city's western outskirts about 1.8 miles (2.9 km) west of Union Station. It now transports information rather than people and is currently in private use by Global Access Point, which renovated the facility to become a state of the art data center, housing computing equipment from outside companies.

See also

• Union Station (disambiguation)

References

1. Potter, Janet Greenstein (1996). Great American Railroad Stations. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. pp. 314–315. ISBN 9780471143895.

External links

• South Bend Union Station (Great Railroad Stations -- TrainWeb)
• Historic South Bend Railroads and Stations (South Bend's Historical Heritage)