| World / USA / Tennessee / Nashville, 1 km from center | Coordinates: 36°9'25"N 86°47'5"W |
Nashville's Union Station is a former railroad terminal opened in 1900 to serve the passenger operations of the eight railroads then providing passenger service to Nashville, Tennessee. Built just to the west of the downtown area, it was adjacent to a railroad gulch through which most of the tracks of the area were routed which was spanned by a viaduct adjacent to the station. The station was also served by streetcars prior to their discontinuance in Nashville in 1941.
The station is an example of late-Victorian Gothic Revival architecture and is highly castleated. The tower originally contained an early mechanical digital clock; when replacement French silk drive belts proved unavailable during World War I, it was replaced by a traditional analog clock. The tower was originally topped by a bronze statue of the Roman god Mercury; this was toppled in a storm in 1951. When a new Main Post Office was built in Nashville in 1935 it was built adjacent to Union Station and a connecting passageway between the two served to transport mail to and from trains for over three decades.
Category: station train union museum
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