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Approach tracks to Washington Union Station

The tracks leading to Union Station in Washington, D.C., as seen from the station building between 1909 and 1932. Union Station opened on October 27, 1908; the first train to serve the station was a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad passenger train arriving from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. During World War II, as many as 200,000 people passed through the station in a single day.

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