Union Station (Erie, Pennsylvania)

Union Station
Amtrak inter-city rail station
Location 125 West 14th Street
Erie, Pennsylvania
United States
Coordinates 42°07′15″N 80°04′55″W / 42.1209°N 80.0820°WCoordinates: 42°07′15″N 80°04′55″W / 42.1209°N 80.0820°W
Owned by Logistics Plus
Line(s)
Platforms 2 island
Tracks 5
Connections EMTA: Bayliner Trolley
Construction
Parking 5 short-term, 5 long-term
Disabled access Yes
Architect Alfred T. Fellheimer,
Steward Wagner
Architectural style Art Deco
Other information
Station code ERI
History
Opened December 3, 1927
Traffic
Passengers (FY 2014) 18,312 Increase 1.1%
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station
toward Chicago
Lake Shore Limited
  Former services  
New York Central Railroad
North Girard
toward Chicago
Water Level Route
Harbor Creek
Ashtabula
toward Youngstown
Youngstown Branch
Terminus
Pennsylvania Railroad
TerminusErie – Harrisburg
Waterford
toward Harrisburg
Erie – Pittsburgh
Swanville
toward Pittsburgh

Union Station is an Amtrak railroad station and mixed-use commercial building located in downtown Erie, Erie County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The Lake Shore Limited provides passenger service between Chicago, New York City and Boston—Erie is the train's only stop in Pennsylvania. The station's ground floor was redeveloped into various commercial spaces, including The Brewerie at Union Station, a brewpub. The building itself is privately-owned by and serves as the headquarters for the global logistics and freight management company Logistics Plus.

The first railroad station in Erie was established 1851, but was replaced with the Romanesque Revival-style Union Depot in 1866. Through a series of mergers and acquisitions by competing railroad companies starting not long after the establishment of the first railroads in Erie, Union Depot became jointly owned by the New York Central and Pennsylvania railroads. With the obsolescence of Union Depot becoming apparent for the rapidly growing city of Erie, a more modern structure was designed. The new, Art Deco Union Station was dedicated on December 3, 1927; the first railroad station of that style in the United States.

While the Union Station was busy from its opening and through World War II, passenger rail service began to dwindle afterwards due to increasing popularity of air and highway travel. By the 1960s, the New York Central drastically cut-back service, while the Pennsylvania abandoned service to Erie altogether. Both railroads were merged in 1968 to form Penn Central, and passenger rail was transferred from Penn Central to Amtrak in 1971. At one point, from 1972 to 1975, even Amtrak service in Erie was suspended. With the reduced demand for train travel, Union Station was largely neglected and allowed to decay until its purchase in 2003 by Logistics Plus. Since then, Union Station has been restored and portions re-purposed as commercial and retail space.

Design

Union Station is located on West 14th Street, between Peach and Sassafras Streets, in downtown Erie. Designed by architects Alfred T. Fellheimer and Steward Wagner, it was the first Art Deco railroad station to be completed in the United States.[1][2] Fellheimer had, previously, been influential in the design of Grand Central Terminal in New York City, and both architects collaborated on several railroad stations for the New York Central including Buffalo Central Terminal in 1929 and Cincinnati Union Terminal in 1933.

Erie's Union Station is clad in "rough brown firebrick and sandstone" layered in a Flemish bond, and has an internal construction of steel and masonry.[3][4] The main station building has a frontage of 116 feet (35 m) along Peach Street and 206 feet (63 m) on 14th Street.[3] Entrances from Peach Street open into a large concourse, which originally contained the station's waiting room; entering from 14th Street leads to a hexagonal rotunda where checked baggage and ticket office were located. The concourse contained retail space including a Union News outlet, a barber shop, and other concessions. The entire ground floor was laid with terrazzo featuring a mosaic border; its green and tan color scheme matched that found throughout the building.[3] Superintendents for both the New York Central and Pennsylvania railroads, as well as other railroad officials, retained offices on the second floor of Unions Station.

As the railroad tracks are grade-separated behind Union Station, the platforms are accessed by pedestrian tunnels under the tracks and stairways to the platforms. The station's low-level, concrete platforms were approximately 450 feet (137 m) long covered by steel, "butterfly-style" canopies with wooden roof decking.[1] New York Central made use of four tracks situated on two island platforms; the Pennsylvania Railroad use two tracks on one island platform. A network of tunnels beneath the station facilitated the transfer of mail to and from the former Griswold Plaza Post Office nearby. A bomb shelter, still stocked with cases of "U.S. Civil Defense All-Purpose Survival Crackers" from the early-1960s, is located next to the station's boiler room and its three, coal-fed furnaces.[5][6]

History

During the 1840s and 1850s, a flurry of railroad-building activity was undertaken with, eventually, four separate railroads being completed and converging in Erie. A break-of-gauge between the first two railroads—the Erie and North East Railroad and the Franklin Canal Company—ensured that the citizens of Erie profited from the delays necessary to transfer cargo between the lines.[7] When it was proposed in 1853 to standardize the track gauge to allow through traffic, a conflict ensued with Erieites dismantling railroad bridges and tearing up railroad tracks in the city in an effort to prevent the impending standardization.[8] As part of the dispute's settlement, both railroads provided financial support for the construction of the Erie and Pittsburgh and Sunbury and Erie railroads.[9] The Franklin Canal Company was acquired by the Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula Railroad in 1854, and the Erie and North East was merged with the Buffalo and State Line to form the Buffalo and Erie Railroad a few years later.[10] The Sunbury and Erie was renamed the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad in 1861.[11] It was soon acquired by the Pennsylvania Railroad through a 999-year lease, whom funded the completion of the line by 1864.[12]

Predecessor stations

The first railroad station in Erie was built in 1851 and consisted of a "clumsy looking" or "rude brick structure".[10][13] President-elect Abraham Lincoln addressed a crowd outside of this station on February 16, 1861 while traveling to Washington, D.C. for his inauguration.[14] Construction on a new station was started in early 1865 as a joint venture between the Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula, and Buffalo and Erie railroads, and was completed in February 1866.[15] Both the Erie and Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia and Erie railroads also leased portions of the new station for their services as well.[10] Although, the Philadelphia and Erie continued to maintain their original station on State Street below Hamot Hospital as a freight station for several years afterward.[9]

The station, know as Union Depot, consisted of a brick, Romanesque Revival structure facing Peach Street between two sets of railroad tracks. It stood 40 feet (10 m) tall, topped with a distinctive cupola, and its platforms extended 480 feet (150 m), towards Sassafras Street, along both sides of the depot.[15] The depot was equipped with the modern amenities of the day including outdoor gas lighting, a barber shop, "gentleman's" and "ladies' parlors", and a dining room; the second floor contained offices and sleeping quarters for railroad officials.[16]

The Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula became the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway in 1869, and absorbed the Buffalo and Erie Railroad later that year.[10] The Pennsylvania Railroad leased the Erie and Pittsburgh for 999 years in 1870.[17] On March 5, 1902, nearly 10,000 people turned out at Union Depot to greet Prince Henry of Prussia during his tour of the United States; the prince dwelled in Erie for approximately 10 minutes before his train continued on to Buffalo and Niagara Falls, New York.[18][19] On December 22, 1914, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad was merged with the New York Central Railroad.[20]

Panorama of downtown Erie in 1912, looking along the railroad tracks. Union Depot (left) is located on Peach Street between the railroad tracks. Note the level crossings.

Construction

In 1913, the city of Erie appointed a committee of city planners and civil engineers lead by John Nolen that was tasked with determining the best course of action to support the continued growth of the city.[21] In its final report, the committee recommended, amongst other civic improvements, that "for the improvement of the railroad facilities in Erie" a new Union Station be constructed, as well as the "abolition of all [railroad] crossings".[22] At the time the only streets in Erie where the railroad was grade separated were State, French and Ash Streets, and Buffalo Road, with the remainder having level crossings.[23] The committee felt it was desirable that, on account of Erie's topography and the existing railroad grades, the tracks be raised in the downtown to accommodate new roadway underpasses.[23] The city signed an agreement on September 30, 1915 with the New York Central and the Pennsylvania railroads to eliminate every level crossing between Ash and Cascade Streets through the construction of bridges or the closing of the streets.[24] As compensation, both railroads pledged to replace Union Depot with a new station.[24]

The work to re-grade and install drainage on Peach and Sassafras Streets coincided with the building of the station from 1925 to 1927, and cost the city approximately $110,000.[25] A temporary station was also erected at 14th and French Streets, and was used after the old Union Depot was demolished in 1925 until the completion of the new station.[15][26] Union Station was dedicated on December 3, 1927 in a ceremony presided over by the presidents of the New York Central and Pennsylvania railroads, the mayor of Erie Joseph Williams, and former mayor William Stern who helped initiate the project.[26] The Griswold Plaza Post Office, on the north side of 14th Street, opened in 1932 along with the tunnel connecting it to Union Station.[4]

Operations

When service from Union Station was inaugurated in 1928, both eastbound and westbound trains were departing the station almost every hour bound for destinations across the United States.[27] Passengers in the station's expansive waiting room could patronage its news stand, telegraph office, barbershop, shoeshine stand, or its lunch counter and soda fountain.[26] Train schedules were handwritten on a large blackboard, while station staff announced the arrival and impending departures of the trains by megaphone.[27]

In the 1930s, the New York Central provided the majority of the service in Erie with over 20 trains daily, including the original Lake Shore Limited.[28] The famed 20th Century Limited, however, passed through Union Station nightly without stopping. Union Station was located on the New York Central's main line, often referred to as the "Water Level Route", with trains traveling west to Cleveland, Toledo and Chicago; and east to Buffalo, New York City and Boston.[28] The New York Central also had service from Erie via a branch line to Youngstown, Ohio with connections to the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad.[29] Conversely, the Pennsylvania Railroad ran only a few trains from Erie—mainly the Northern and Southern Expresses to Harrisburg, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.

During World War II, the Bliley Electric Company operated a defense-related factory on the second floor of Union Station. The factory, staffed 24 hours a day by local women, ground and fashioned galena into semiconductors for the cat's whisker detector in crystal radios.[30] The lead ore used in the operation was stockpiled in the rail yard, where it and the entire complex were guarded by soldiers with Great Danes.[30]

Decline

The post-war boom in automobile travel and the construction of the Interstate Highway System, as well as competition from commercial airlines, lead to the inevitable decline of passenger rail.[31] The Pennsylvania Railroad eventually truncated through service to Emporium and discontinued all service from Erie on March 27, 1965.[32] By 1968, the number of New York Central trains was also reduced to five per day.[31] The two railroads were soon merged on February 1, 1968 forming the Penn Central Transportation Company. Penn Central continued to run the former New York Central passenger trains, until the last departed Union Station on April 30, 1971.[33]

The newly-created National Passenger Rail Corporation, more commonly known as Amtrak, took over nationwide passenger rail operations the next day.[34] Amtrak continued to operate a New York to Chicago train until January 1972, the Lake Shore, which had a station stop in Erie starting in November 1971. However, the poor condition of the track between Buffalo and Chicago, as well as the general lack of profitability of the service, lead to the Lake Shore‍ '​s demise.[35][36] Erie remained devoid of any passenger rail service until the Lake Shore Limited was introduced on November 30, 1975.[37]

During that time, upkeep of Union Station became neglected by the railroads, and the station gradually deteriorated from its heyday. The presence of dirt, trash, and human waste were a normal occurrence at the station.[27][31][38] At one point, in 1973, the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry ordered Penn Central to close Union Station citing "sanitary reasons"; at the time, it was only used by the crews of its freight trains.[39] In the winter, the station often became an "unsanctioned shelter" for the homeless, who burned the station's wooden doors for heat.[38][40] The few passengers that did travel by train were often reluctant to use Amtrak's makeshift waiting room in the station rotunda, due to the unsettling sights and fear of being accosted.[38][41] Penn Central persisted with freight service until 1976 when it declared bankruptcy and became a part of Conrail. Conrail, in turn, was dismantled in 1999 with the former New York Central rail lines going to CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway gaining control of the former Pennsylvania lines.

Renovation and restoration

Union Station was purchased for $1.5 million by the Erie-based, logistics and transportation firm Logistics Plus on October 30, 2003.[40] The company renovated the station's third floor and part of the second floor for use as its corporate headquarters. In addition to restoring a landmark and revitalizing the surrounding neighborhood, chief executive officer of Logistics Plus Jim Berlin observed that its transportation motif made the building ideal, remarking that "though Union Station will never be the center of transportation again, it can be a place from which transportation—global transportation—can be managed".[1][2] The original proposed plan included revamping Union Station into an urban, mixed-use development with retail spaces, a pedestrian mall and a museum similar to Pittsburgh's Station Square.[40] In May 2007, Logistics Plus lined the parapet of Union Station with 50 flags symbolizing the locations it does business in and the home countries of its employees.[42][43]

Since the 1990s, Union Station has also been "an incubator of Erie's modern [beer] brewing" with the predecessor of the Erie Brewing Company having been located in the station from 1994 to 1999, as well as a fine dining restaurant and beer bar after Erie Brewing had been established elsewhere.[44] The Brewerie at Union Station took over the space, and opened in October 2006 after the closure of the fine dining restaurant earlier that year.[45] During the run-up to the 2008 presidential election, Union Station was site of "whistle-stop" by ABC's Good Morning America news team on a charter Amtrak train. Anchors Sam Champion, Chris Cuomo, Robin Roberts, and Diane Sawyer interviewed local residents at the Brewerie about campaign issues.[46] The Good Morning America stop lasted about 30 minutes with the segment airing on September 18, 2008.[46][47]

As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the Federal Railroad Administration identified ten regions for potential development as high-speed rail corridors—Erie is located in the gap between three of the corridors: the Chicago Hub Network, the Empire Corridor and the Keystone Corridor.[48] The local passenger rail advocacy group, All Aboard Erie, proposed a feasibility study in 2014 for the existence of a high-speed rail service to connect to the corridors at Cleveland and Buffalo.[49] The group also wants determine if rail service would be possible using the existing tracks and right of way between Erie, Youngstown, Ohio; and Pittsburgh.[49]

Major tenants

Amtrak

Union Station sees two arrivals by the Lake Shore Limited daily, westbound from Chicago Union Station, and eastbound from New York Penn Station and Boston South Station.[50] The station is 436 miles (702 km) east of Chicago, 523 miles (842 km) west of New York City, and 723 miles (1,164 km) from Boston.[50] The next station west of Erie is Cleveland Lakefront, and eastbound is Buffalo–Depew.[50] The station was the 15th busiest in Pennsylvania during fiscal year 2014 with an annual ridership of 18,312 passengers, an increase of 1.1 percent from the previous year.[51][52]

Service on the Lake Shore Limited consists of reserved Coach seating and Viewliner sleepers, as well as including amenities like a dining car service.[50] As the Erie station is not equipped with a ticket office, nor Amtrak's Quik-Trak ticket machines, all tickets from the station have to be pre-paid.[53] The station is, however, equipped with a waiting room and public restrooms.[53] The Erie Metropolitan Transit Authority's downtown circulator, the Bayliner Trolley, provides service between the station and downtown Erie.[54] The Trolley is only in operation, however, at the scheduled arrival time of the eastbound Lake Shore Limited.[50][54]

Brewerie

The Brewerie at Union Station is a microbrewery and restaurant—officially categorized as a "brewpub" by the Brewers Association—that operates out of Union Station.[55] The brewpub makes use of a portion of the station's ground floor and its hexagonal rotunda. It also sports a "trackside" beer garden overlooking the station's platforms and the operational CSX and Norfolk Southern rail lines.[56][57]

The microbrewery serves on draft 5 variaties of beers year-round, named from elements of Erie history, and 25 seasonal beers produced in-house, as well as a selection of Pennsylvania wines and bottled beer from other Pennsylvania microbreweries.[57][58] In 2013, the Brewerie produced approximately 500 barrels of beer (15,500 gal; 59,000 l) from its 3.5 barrel (109 gal; 410 l) Price-Schonstrom brewing system.[57][59] As Union Station and the tunnels beneath it are alleged to be haunted and have been investigated numerous time by ghost hunters, the owner of the Brewerie hosts seasonal historical and ghost tours of the tunnels in October for Halloween.[5][6]

Logistics Plus

Union Station serves as the corporate headquarters for Logistics Plus. The company occupies the 16,000-square-foot (1,500 m2) third floor and 5,000 square feet (500 m2) of the second floor.[1] The rest of the building is leased out to a variety of tenants including Amtrak, the Brewerie, a hookah lounge, a wine shop, a hair salon, a banquet hall and an art gallery.[1][6]

Logistics Plus was formed in 1996 to manage domestic logistics for GE Transportation, the largest employer in Erie.[60] The company's offices were relocated from Jamestown, New York to the station in 2004.[61] It is able to provide services which include "project management, import/export services, air and ocean freight forwarding, warehousing and distribution, global trade compliance services, [less-than-truckload] and truckload transportation, rail and intermodal services, and logistics and technology solutions" as either a third-party or fourth-party.[60] Logistics Plus operates a $100+-million business with offices in 10 cities across the United States and internationally in 20 different countries.[61]

See also

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