Remembering America’s Lost Train Stations
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 06.23.09 | 12:12 PM ET
The Infrastructurist has a terrific then-and-now photo essay on beautiful American train stations that fell to the wrecking ball. Write Yonah Freemark and Jebediah Reed: “One lesson of this legacy is that what replaces a well designed and centrally located rail depot can is rarely of equal worth to the city.” (via @frugaltraveler)
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
Grizzly Bear Mom 06.24.09 | 1:21 PM ET
Thank you for reminding me to be thankful that I arrive like a Queen at the beautfil station Union Station in Washington DC daily, and not like a rat underground in those dank replacements you photographed.
Whose idea is it to replace beatuy with ashes? I regularly ask my 77 year old mom to meet me at Union Station. I would be affraid to ask her to wait for me at holes you pictured.