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Marion
The Lake Cities at Marion Union Station in 1969
General information
Location	532 West Center Street, Marion, Ohio 43302
Coordinates	40°35′22″N 83°08′26″W / 40.589370°N 83.140607°W / 40.589370; -83.140607
Line(s)	Main Line (Kent Division)
Platforms	6 side platforms
Tracks	4
Other information
Station code	5909 (Erie Railroad)
History
Opened	July 31,1902
Closed	January 6, 1970 (Erie-Lackawanna Railroad)
Former services
Preceding station Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Following station Morraltoward Ludington Ludington – Athens Owenstoward Athens Preceding station Erie Railroad Following station De Clifftoward Chicago Main Line Caledoniatoward Jersey City Green Camptoward Dayton Cincinnati Division Terminus Preceding station New York Central Railroad Following station Union Citytoward St. Louis Big Four RouteMain Line Galiontoward Cleveland Longvilletoward St. Louis Caledoniatoward Cleveland

Marion Union Station is a former passenger railroad station at 532 W. Center Street in Marion, Ohio, United States. As a union station it served several train lines: the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway or CCC & St. L. (acquired in 1906 by the New York Central Railroad), and Erie Railroad (and its successor Erie Lackawanna Railroad). These lines intersected at the station, so it was a significant transfer point between different geographic points.

History

It was built in 1902 (opening on July 31), it featured marble walls and patterned mosaic tiles on the floor. In 1923, it was the last stop on President Warren Harding's funeral train. It was a canteen stop for soldiers during World War II. It had its last long-distance train in 1971 with the end of the Chesapeake & Ohio's connector line to the George Washington.

Into the 1960s, it was a stop for several long-distance passenger trains on the following railroads:

• Chesapeake and Ohio
  • Sportsman (Detroit, MI – Newport News and Washington, D.C., via Toledo, Columbus and Charlottesville); in last years a connector line for the George Washington
• Erie Railroad (and after 1960: Erie Lackawanna)
  • Atlantic Express and Pacific Express (Chicago, IL – Hoboken, NJ)
  • Erie Limited (Chicago, IL – Hoboken, NJ)
  • Lake Cities (Chicago, IL – Hoboken, NJ)
• New York Central
  • Cleveland Special / Gateway (St. Louis, MO – Cleveland, OH)
  • Southwestern Limited (St. Louis, MO – New York, NY)

Disposition today

Presently the station is the site of a museum run by the Marion Union Station Association.

About 60 CSX and Norfolk Southern freight trains pass by each day.

References

1. "List of Station Names and Numbers". Jersey City, New Jersey: Erie Railroad. May 1, 1916. Retrieved December 28, 2019.
2. ^ "Railroad". The News-Forum. Bucyrus, Ohio. August 5, 1902. p. 3. Retrieved December 29, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
3. "Erie Lackawanna Time Table – Effective June 15, 1969" (PDF). Erie Lackawanna Railway. June 15, 1969. Retrieved December 28, 2019.
4. ^ MarionMade, January 17, 2018, 'Marion Union Station' http://www.marionmade.org/2018/01/marion-union-station/
5. Official Guide of the Railways, June 1961, Chesapeake and Ohio section
6. Official Guide of the Railways, June 1961, Erie Lackawanna section
7. New York Central timetable, July 1959, Table 17
8. New York Central timetable, April 1967, Table 6
9. Railfan Guides of the U.S.A., 'Marion , OH' https://www.railfanguides.us/oh/marion/

• Former Chesapeake and Ohio Railway stations
• Former Erie Railroad stations
• Former New York Central Railroad stations
• Railway stations in the United States opened in 1902
• Union stations in the United States
• Railway stations in the United States closed in 1971