THE QUEEN CITY OF THE WEST GETS A NEW CROWN

摘要

When I first saw Cincinnati Union Terminal, I was 12 years old, and the structure was the grandest railroad architecture I had ever seen or imagined I ever would. CUT was more than a station. In a sense, its station function was one of its lesser values. The Terminal was the confirmation of everything railroading stood for in my formative, impressionable years. The size and sweep of its masonry symbolized an enduring, self-sustaining, fundamental transportation. For CUT was a built-for-the-ages edifice, fit for the tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh, aptly acclaimed by the local chamber of commerce as a "great temple of transportation." - Trains editor David P. Morgan, "Cincinnati Union Terminal: A Memoir", February 1972.