Union Station (South Bend, Indiana)

South Bend
Exterior of Union Station
General information
Location	326 West South Street South Bend, Indiana
Coordinates	41°40′9.59″N 86°15′17.10″W
Platforms	3
Tracks	5
Construction
Structure type	Art Deco architecture
History
Opened	1929
Closed	1971
Former services
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Union Station is a former train station in South Bend, Indiana in the United States.

History

A New York Central train approaches South Bend Union Station

Opened in 1929 and situated across the tracks from the Studebaker auto plant, the building served the New York Central Railroad and Grand Trunk Western Railroad. It was designed by the architectural firm Fellheimer & Wagner. NYC's Detroit-Chicago "Great Steel Fleet" and GTW's Chicago-Canada trains used this station. When the New York Central merged with the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1968 to make the Penn Central Transportation Company, it used the station as well. The last trains departed in 1971 when newly created Amtrak moved its operations to the South Shore Line station on the city's western outskirts about 1.8 miles (2.9 km) west of Union Station constructed by the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad a year earlier in 1970.

The Union Station now transports information rather than people and is currently in private use by Global Access Point, which renovated the facility to become a state of the art data center, housing computing equipment from outside companies.

See also

• Union Station (disambiguation)

External links

• South Bend Union Station (Great Railroad Stations -- TrainWeb)
• Historic South Bend Railroads and Stations (South Bend's Historical Heritage)
• Union Station Technology Center (Global Access Point website)