A Pennsylvania train enters the terminal at Union Station on July 21, 1936, while the tracks were under water due to a broken water main. The station power plant and the basement of the new post ...

Many years ago, before the advent of passenger airlines, railroads were the great transcontinental people-movers. Trains carried millions to and from the great cities of America, and in each of the… ...

Union Station was owned by Penn Central, the weak descendant of the old Pennsylvania Railroad, and for a while it looked like the station would be bulldozed into a parking lot. Mayor Richard Lugar ...

Runaway train crashed in D.C. Accident: Jan. 15, 1953, the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Federal Express plowed into the Union Station concourse and stopped only after the locomotive fell through the ...

Barbara “B.” Smith announced Friday that she would close her restaurant in Union Station after nearly 20 years in business. Located in the ornate East Hall, the restaurant is one of three ...

Empty store fronts and a quiet grand hall currently define D.C.’s Union Station — now ... He pointed to his work on the recent and successful expansion of New York City’s Pennsylvania Station.