Fort Wayne station
Fort Wayne, IN | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Passengers board Amtrak's Broadway Limited at the station in 1974 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | 221 Baker Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana USA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | March 23, 1914 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Closed | November 11, 1990[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pennsylvania Railroad Station | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | 221 West Baker Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°4′20′′N 85°8′26′′W / 41.07222°N 85.14056°W / 41.07222; -85.14056 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Built | 1914 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Architect | George B. Swift & Co., William L. Price | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Architectural style | American Craftsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NRHP reference No. | 98001056 [2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Added to NRHP | 1998 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Pennsylvania Railroad Station in Fort Wayne, Indiana, also known as Baker Street Station, is a former passenger rail station in downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana. The American Craftsman-style station opened to the public March 23, 1914, at a cost of 550,000ドル.[3] [4]
History
[edit ]The station saw its most heavy usage during World War II, when about 3,000 visitors passed through the station daily.[3] The station was also frequented by politicians on whistle stop train tours, including U.S. Presidents Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower.[3] Until 1957 a Grand Rapids originating branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad's Chicago-Florida Southland made a stop in at the station, and picked up passengers from a connecting Wabash Railroad train from Detroit, Michigan.[5] [6] Until 1961 the PRR's Cincinnati, Ohio-Mackinaw City, Michigan Northern Arrow also made a stop there, and picked up connecting passenger rail cars from Chicago.[7] Until 1971 the Penn Central ran the Broadway Limited and several other Chicago-New York City passenger trains, Admiral, Manhattan Limited and Pennsylvania Limited through the station.[8]
In the second half of the 20th century, the station served as a stop on Amtrak's Broadway Limited (Chicago—Pittsburgh—New York) and Capitol Limited (Chicago–Pittsburgh–Washington) lines until November 1990 when Amtrak was forced to reroute about 25 miles (40 km) north of Fort Wayne.[9] The nearest active passenger train station is Waterloo (for the Capitol Limited), 32 miles to the north.
Today, Baker Street Station's concourse is used as a banquet hall and community events space,[10] while the east and west wings have been converted into office space.[3] Over the last decade, residents and local leaders have begun a movement to bring passenger rail service back to the city and station in the form of Amtrak or other high-speed rail service.[11]
Although the station has been without passenger rail service for over 30 years, it has remained a landmark to the city, designated a Fort Wayne Local Historic District in 1990.[12] and later, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998 as the Pennsylvania Railroad Station.[2]
References
[edit ]- ^ "Amtrak Switches Lines to Chicago". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. November 12, 1990. p. 10. Retrieved January 12, 2019 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
- ^ a b "Indiana, Allen County". National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
- ^ a b c d "History". Baker Street Train Station. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
- ^ "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved July 1, 2015. Note: This includes Creager Smith (July 1997). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Pennsylvania Railroad Station" (PDF). Retrieved July 1, 2015. and Accompanying photographs
- ^ Pennsylvania Railroad August 1950 timetable, Table C
- ^ Louisville and Nashville December 1948, Table E
- ^ Pennsylvania Railroad August 1950 timetable, Table 22
- ^ Kanary, George E. (June 2011). "Things Were Not the Same After May 1, 1971" (PDF). First and Fastest. p. 19. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 13, 2016.
- ^ Sanders (2006), 24–25.
- ^ "Banquet Facility". Baker Street Train Station. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
- ^ Caylor, Bob (April 4, 2009). "Rally for Fort Wayne train service draws hundreds". The News-Sentinel. Archived from the original on April 18, 2009. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
- ^ "Fort Wayne Local Historic Districts". Architecture and Community Heritage (ARCH). Archived from the original on June 24, 2013. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
External links
[edit ]- Media related to Pennsylvania Railroad Station (Fort Wayne, Indiana) at Wikimedia Commons
- Baker Street Station
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