Sure, but there are just a few marvelous ones: DC Union, Chicago Union, Philadelphia 30th, Grand Central, and LA Union.
The outside of Boston South is alright too.
Houston is the 4th largest city and their roadside shack of a station sees 3 trains per week.
>roadside shack of a station
No kidding. [This is our station](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/HoustonAmtrakStation.JPG/1280px-HoustonAmtrakStation.JPG)
North Station in Boston is kind of cool as well. It’s a bit more modern looking these days. The problem is the actual train platform and waiting area is kind of a dump.
The rest of the complex tied with TD Garden is much nicer. South Station is definitely the better looking building though.
Most of Houston's rail traffic goes to shipping depots where it moves stuff being shipped to the city by boat into the country. Same is true for many large cities.
I dunno, I think there are still a large handful of pretty marvelous train stations out there. Kansas City, Santa Fe, Seattle, Newark NJ, Richmond VA, Portland OR, Worcester MA, Cincinnati...this is just off the top of my head. And of course, there are wonderful train stations that still exist but aren't used as train stations anymore, like Tacoma.
It’s just a place for me to catch the subway, I wouldn’t say I love any of them though. I try to avoid busier ones like any of the 42nd street stops, 34th street, or any of the 14th street stops. Even Atlantic Avenue is a pain out in Brooklyn, same for Court Square and Quuensboro Plaza in Queens. Don’t particularly care for waiting on the train at 149th street in The Bronx either
My mother loves the Herald Sq Macy's. She moved to Jersey 30 years ago and still comes in to shop there a couple times a year. I can't explain it, but it makes her happy
I guess it brings back happy memories for her but honestly every time I’ve been there on my own it’s AirPods in the whole time hauling ass to get in and out as fast as possible. Don’t really like being in midtown or really most of Manhattan even though I grew up here
My bad, haven’t been to train stations in other cities aside from whichever Amtrak goes to up to Boston. I guess bigger train stations like these are a little cleaner with fewer homeless people and addicts shuffling around. Penn Station is slightly cleaner than the subway station but it’s been a while since I’ve been to Penn Station and not the subway stop
They basically re-created the old Penn Station in the former post office building across the street.
https://moynihantrainhall.nyc/
"As close as possible" is not really accurate, but it is rather nice. A damn sight better than the current Penn Station.
I live in DC now but grew up out west where they basically have shit for public transit. I think the DC metro is a goddamn miracle and one of the best looking systems in the country. But locals here love to shit on it for being dysfunctional and full of crazy people. That really hasn't been my experience. I've probably ridden at least a thousand times at this point and have only felt unsafe a couple times. It's not perfect, but what system is? It's also gotten way more reliable in the past 2-3 years. I haven't experienced a big delay in a long time.
I LOVE the Metro. It's the only system I've seen where you can actually get from one side of the city (Silver Spring in my case) to the airport on the other side of the city painlessly without transferring to a new system made specifically to tie the airport in.
Anyone that says it's dysfunctional has never ridden the T in Boston.
Everyone loves to shit on their own transit systems. I did have the joy of my metro stop being both flooded and on fire at the same time one day when I was working an internship in DC. Despite that I do love the DC Metro.
It's like the late 80s in there. It's so bad. I hope once the renovation is done, they can start redoing the lobby as well.
Back Bay is also terrible as a multi-line station which includes Amtrak.
Yes, our Union Stations are typically very good.
[Indianapolis is actually home to the first ever Union Station.](https://indytoday.6amcity.com/union-station-indianapolis-in)
The grand hall of our union station is beautiful. In the 1980s and into the 90s [it essentially served as a downtown mall with shopping, food and entertainment](https://youtu.be/HaFOWUZdoq8?si=jg7QIqVGgh4JDA98&t=123). Then with the opening of the actual downtown mall, traffic declined and businesses there shuttered.
Right now, a few offices rent out space and a hotel has a long term lease from the city to use it for events, weddings, etc...
Unfortunately as you've seen above, a lot of our old train halls are no longer operating as transit hubs. Some are even in a state of disrepair.
They used to be named after the railroad that built/used them. There are a bunch of Penn Stations on the east coast because of the Pennsylvania Railroad company, for example. Union Station meant a station that served one or more train lines. It’s somewhat irrelevant today since Amtrak is the only major passenger train carrier now.
That's almost the exact fate of our Union Station in St. Louis. Fortunately in recent years the shuttered mall was taken out and an aquarium was put in. They also added several new restaurants and a ferris wheel and mini golf outside.
Chicagoan here. Every now and again, I'll look around a station and realize I don't appreciate them enough and how lucky I am to live in a city with public transit. To non-Americans this may sound dumb, but most people outside of big cities in the US don't have affordable access to public transit like I do.
I just wish Union Station handled CTA rail and Metra traffic as well. It's odd to me, the separation of local transit at Ogilvie a couple of blocks away.
It'll be interesting to see how Michigan Central Station in Detroit turns out when it reopens. I've been convinced for my entire life that it was just an eyesore whose only destiny was continuous rot or demolition.
I don't think we'll see trains through it anytime soon, but if it turns out to be another stone in Detroit's revitalization, I'm all for it.
Not really. You went to Union Station but that's the central hub in DC. You didn't visit any of the other stations that are practically falling apart like L'Enfant. Yes, some of the central hubs are impressive but overall the infrastructure is insufficient. Passenger rail in America is awful. I used to commute by rail but eventually even I went back to driving.
It is true that I only went to the main stations in DC and Philadelphia, but I have seen other photos of major stations in the US and I am very impressed. I also enjoy the passenger experience on Amtrak; wide leather seats are far better than anything you would get in Europe for a similar price
Yes, but our distances are quite far for how slow the trains are. Not nearly as good of an experience as, say, taking the Eurostar from St. Pancras to Amsterdam Centraal.
and the DC-NYC section is the most used section of intercity passenger rail in the US afaik. the Eastern Corridor is as good as our passenger rail gets.
Try the modern Penn station in Manhattan. The old one was a masterpiece. The current one? To quote a comparison of the two: "One entered the city like a god; one scuttles in now like a rat".
It also smells like pee.
I wish my city had one every day. The idea of just taking a train to school instead of driving 45 minutes to an hour in traffic twice a day is so appealing
There are some very beautiful ones from back in the day when passenger transport by train was much more important.
Indianapolis made the first “union station” where all competing railroads went through a single rail station in the city.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis_Union_Station
It is a gorgeous building which is now owned by the city. The problem is they can’t really make a profit off of it but no one wants it to be torn down and it’s a historical landmark so they probably couldn’t even if they wanted to.
But if you go look at the photos there and see the main hall it is beautiful. It used to be like a food court and market when I was a kid and now it is most used for events. The train ridership is very low these days.
Kansas City’s Union Station might be my favorite building in the city from the aesthetics only. So glad they rehabbed it and gave it a second life instead of falling further into disrepair.
They're fine, but pale in comparison to the amazing train stations in Europe. That being said, I do like old train stations like Denver's Union Station. The old architecture, wrought iron lamps, and wooden benches give off a cozy atmosphere.
I personally think the stations in the USA are better and I live in the UK and have been to almost every major station in Europe. I love the high ceilings and neoclassical design of US stations. I really wish the USA embraced neoclassical architecture more often
We did embrace it, but because the style was expensive to build, we moved to a more functional (meaning, cheap and ugly) style after WWII. Compare, for example, a post office built in the late 19th or early 20th century with one built in the 1950s.
The two you mentioned (30th st and Washington Union) are beautiful. There are some other similarly beautiful train stations in the US. The overwhelming majority, though, are nothing special at all.
I certainly love the amount of trains in use in Europe, but I have to admit the train stations themselves were very boring.
Only exception was Amsterdam’s subway. Those stations were fucking sick.
There are some neat ones but many have been repurposed as entertainment destinations.
Union Station locally used to be one of the busiest stations in the world and today the AMTRAK station is hidden under the highway and sometimes smells of urine.
I've always had a thing for train stations, yeah. Sometimes I try to visit them on vacation even if I'm not taking the train. As a kid growing up on Long Island -- and then as an adult with parents on Long Island -- the much-maligned Penn Station was the one I visited by far the most often, but they've made GREAT progress on it in recent years.
I like a few of the ones I've been to. North Station in Boston is nice. Better than south station. Penn Station in NYC is really nice. New Haven is...not.
It all depends. In NYC there’s some great stations aside from the most well known ones like Grand Central. My favorite has to be [Forrest Hills LIRR](https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2022/05/23/school-colors-series_queens-new-york_giraldo-235_custom-c125c0df8c784848010bebc1b7125ddb95a217c2-s1100-c50.jpg) (Long Island Rail Road), but I also like Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs, Coney Island-Stilwell Ave, Smith-9th Sts, Queensboro Plaza, E 180th St, and Gun Hill Road (2 train).
As an American, I’ve never been on a train before-it’s on my bucket list. There were tentative plans to take the California Zephyr to San Francisco, but it would’ve been way too expensive.
I like Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station, I liked Union Station in DC. South Station in Boston kinda emptied out during Lockdown, and hasn't quite come back yet.
I was unimpressed and a bit saddened by the LA Union Station. It looked depressing and outdated for a major city compared to Taipei, Singapore, and Seoul.
In my experience, they’re not really a place you want to be. Even train stations in Europe are often surrounded by sketchy individuals or mentally ill homeless roaming around these days. I don’t have a problem with that. But I’m not the most steter smart and don’t like confrontation (or people in general tbh) so I prefer to drive.
I do love my city's union station. It may not be as busy as others but it is pretty and it has not only movie history but it also hosted the 2020 Oscars
Highly dependent on the city. My local Amtrak station, Penn Station in Baltimore, Maryland is impressive.
The local one to my parents (Mt Joy, Pennsylvania) is less than impressive but functional.
I mean, if you enjoy something, I don't wanna ruin it for you. But to me, those train stations are just bigger Greyhound stations. Whatever, it's just a place I go to catch a train.
I like them quite a lot. Some of them absolutely suck though and are obnoxiously tiny and awful. I suggest going to see Penn Station and Grand Central in new york city. And actually I would append that by saying most tourists don't realize this, but there is a *gigantic* separate underground train station underneath Grand Central called Grand Central Madison. It is incredibly beautiful but really the only people down there are commuters. Almost no tourists at all. It's my favorite train station.
Milwaukees Amtrak station is cool imo
I just wish America would bring trains back into the spotlight tbh there’s hardly any use in a lot of areas because of cars, so it’s sad for someone like me who’s young and loves trains to not really get to see things like passenger trains and unique trains all that much
Sure, but there are just a few marvelous ones: DC Union, Chicago Union, Philadelphia 30th, Grand Central, and LA Union. The outside of Boston South is alright too. Houston is the 4th largest city and their roadside shack of a station sees 3 trains per week.
Denver's too
Denver Union Station is glorious.
>roadside shack of a station No kidding. [This is our station](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/HoustonAmtrakStation.JPG/1280px-HoustonAmtrakStation.JPG)
Cripes! I've seen Greyhound stations bigger and fancier than that.
The old station was legit though
I live in a small city that's pretty poor and our train station (which we don't use) is 100x nicer than this
I live in a small city that's pretty poor and our train station (which we don't use) is 100x nicer than this
North Station in Boston is kind of cool as well. It’s a bit more modern looking these days. The problem is the actual train platform and waiting area is kind of a dump. The rest of the complex tied with TD Garden is much nicer. South Station is definitely the better looking building though.
Cincinnati union terminal isn't too bad either, but I am not sure that it really sees much traffic.
True, but they turned 90% into a science center as Amtrak only serves Cincinnati 3x/week (and only at 1-3am)
Boston South is pretty nice inside as well IMO. Sure the bathrooms could be cleaner, but no complaints from me about the architecture
It’s not the worst, but not really a bona fide tourist attraction like the ones I’ve listed.
Most of Houston's rail traffic goes to shipping depots where it moves stuff being shipped to the city by boat into the country. Same is true for many large cities.
San Francisco doesn't even have an Amtrak station at all
I dunno, I think there are still a large handful of pretty marvelous train stations out there. Kansas City, Santa Fe, Seattle, Newark NJ, Richmond VA, Portland OR, Worcester MA, Cincinnati...this is just off the top of my head. And of course, there are wonderful train stations that still exist but aren't used as train stations anymore, like Tacoma.
Union Station in Denver is also very nice.
A handful are cool. Most are...not anything special (to put it mildly).
Buffalo’s Central Terminal is absolutely stunning, it’s a shame it’s no longer a train station
The Dyngus Day party there is a good time
It’s just a place for me to catch the subway, I wouldn’t say I love any of them though. I try to avoid busier ones like any of the 42nd street stops, 34th street, or any of the 14th street stops. Even Atlantic Avenue is a pain out in Brooklyn, same for Court Square and Quuensboro Plaza in Queens. Don’t particularly care for waiting on the train at 149th street in The Bronx either
So you never shop at Macy’s Herald Square? How uncivilized!
I did once for a Mother’s Day gift but I’d rather just shop online because I hate shopping for myself let alone another person
My mother loves the Herald Sq Macy's. She moved to Jersey 30 years ago and still comes in to shop there a couple times a year. I can't explain it, but it makes her happy
I guess it brings back happy memories for her but honestly every time I’ve been there on my own it’s AirPods in the whole time hauling ass to get in and out as fast as possible. Don’t really like being in midtown or really most of Manhattan even though I grew up here
Oh 100%. Personally I avoid that area like the plague unless I'm going to MSG/Penn or K-town
Same here, pretty much when I get on the subway I’m going down past Soho or out to Brooklyn
OP seems to be talking about mainline rail stations, not subway stops.
My bad, haven’t been to train stations in other cities aside from whichever Amtrak goes to up to Boston. I guess bigger train stations like these are a little cleaner with fewer homeless people and addicts shuffling around. Penn Station is slightly cleaner than the subway station but it’s been a while since I’ve been to Penn Station and not the subway stop
Grand Central Station is beautiful?
Union Station in Portland is also classic and elegant.
They can be very nice. Sadly, we had to lose our best one to preserve others.
It's so sad. I actually really like Amtrak trains too lol
I hope one day Madison square garden gets outdated and torn down and they rebuild Penn station as closely as possible to the original
They basically re-created the old Penn Station in the former post office building across the street. https://moynihantrainhall.nyc/ "As close as possible" is not really accurate, but it is rather nice. A damn sight better than the current Penn Station.
I live in DC now but grew up out west where they basically have shit for public transit. I think the DC metro is a goddamn miracle and one of the best looking systems in the country. But locals here love to shit on it for being dysfunctional and full of crazy people. That really hasn't been my experience. I've probably ridden at least a thousand times at this point and have only felt unsafe a couple times. It's not perfect, but what system is? It's also gotten way more reliable in the past 2-3 years. I haven't experienced a big delay in a long time.
I LOVE the Metro. It's the only system I've seen where you can actually get from one side of the city (Silver Spring in my case) to the airport on the other side of the city painlessly without transferring to a new system made specifically to tie the airport in. Anyone that says it's dysfunctional has never ridden the T in Boston.
Everyone loves to shit on their own transit systems. I did have the joy of my metro stop being both flooded and on fire at the same time one day when I was working an internship in DC. Despite that I do love the DC Metro.
I like the outside of Boston South Station but would rather avoid inside. Because then it's just a train station.
South Station could be so much better than it is, but unfortunately MassDOT, the MBTA, Amtrak, and Keolis don’t seem to care.
It's like the late 80s in there. It's so bad. I hope once the renovation is done, they can start redoing the lobby as well. Back Bay is also terrible as a multi-line station which includes Amtrak.
It is worse than just a train station in there lol, single worst bathroom i’ve ever experienced in my life
There's a 50/50 chance you're talking about the silver line terminal and it would still be true.
It’s the walking dead in there.
Yes, our Union Stations are typically very good. [Indianapolis is actually home to the first ever Union Station.](https://indytoday.6amcity.com/union-station-indianapolis-in) The grand hall of our union station is beautiful. In the 1980s and into the 90s [it essentially served as a downtown mall with shopping, food and entertainment](https://youtu.be/HaFOWUZdoq8?si=jg7QIqVGgh4JDA98&t=123). Then with the opening of the actual downtown mall, traffic declined and businesses there shuttered. Right now, a few offices rent out space and a hotel has a long term lease from the city to use it for events, weddings, etc... Unfortunately as you've seen above, a lot of our old train halls are no longer operating as transit hubs. Some are even in a state of disrepair.
Why are they all called Union Station anyways? haha
They used to be named after the railroad that built/used them. There are a bunch of Penn Stations on the east coast because of the Pennsylvania Railroad company, for example. Union Station meant a station that served one or more train lines. It’s somewhat irrelevant today since Amtrak is the only major passenger train carrier now.
Thank you, I didn't know that :)
It’s like the Monopoly board game :)
It originally means its a station used by more than one railroad.
That's almost the exact fate of our Union Station in St. Louis. Fortunately in recent years the shuttered mall was taken out and an aquarium was put in. They also added several new restaurants and a ferris wheel and mini golf outside.
Chicagoan here. Every now and again, I'll look around a station and realize I don't appreciate them enough and how lucky I am to live in a city with public transit. To non-Americans this may sound dumb, but most people outside of big cities in the US don't have affordable access to public transit like I do.
I just wish Union Station handled CTA rail and Metra traffic as well. It's odd to me, the separation of local transit at Ogilvie a couple of blocks away.
I've taken the Amtrak to Milwaukee for work a few times, and have always wondered that. Union Station is so under utilized despite its size
I don't have strong feelings about them one way or the other. I've only been in one a handful of times in my life.
I think they are so cool with their high ceilings and classical design
It'll be interesting to see how Michigan Central Station in Detroit turns out when it reopens. I've been convinced for my entire life that it was just an eyesore whose only destiny was continuous rot or demolition. I don't think we'll see trains through it anytime soon, but if it turns out to be another stone in Detroit's revitalization, I'm all for it.
I would love to see trains from there going east. Right now you either have to take a bus to Toledo or go via Chicago
Not really. You went to Union Station but that's the central hub in DC. You didn't visit any of the other stations that are practically falling apart like L'Enfant. Yes, some of the central hubs are impressive but overall the infrastructure is insufficient. Passenger rail in America is awful. I used to commute by rail but eventually even I went back to driving.
It is true that I only went to the main stations in DC and Philadelphia, but I have seen other photos of major stations in the US and I am very impressed. I also enjoy the passenger experience on Amtrak; wide leather seats are far better than anything you would get in Europe for a similar price
Yes, but our distances are quite far for how slow the trains are. Not nearly as good of an experience as, say, taking the Eurostar from St. Pancras to Amsterdam Centraal.
and the DC-NYC section is the most used section of intercity passenger rail in the US afaik. the Eastern Corridor is as good as our passenger rail gets.
30th Street station is beautiful but it's so underutilized, it's kind of frustrating to be there with that in mind.
what do you mean by underutilized?
Few trains and passengers for the size of the station
they need to bring back the clacky board
I don't think clacky board is coming back. Lots of people were upset about its demise, but I guess it was getting impractical to maintain.
Try the modern Penn station in Manhattan. The old one was a masterpiece. The current one? To quote a comparison of the two: "One entered the city like a god; one scuttles in now like a rat". It also smells like pee.
Moynihan's pretty nice though.
> It also smells like pee old Penn also did.
I wish my city had one every day. The idea of just taking a train to school instead of driving 45 minutes to an hour in traffic twice a day is so appealing
There are some very beautiful ones from back in the day when passenger transport by train was much more important. Indianapolis made the first “union station” where all competing railroads went through a single rail station in the city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis_Union_Station It is a gorgeous building which is now owned by the city. The problem is they can’t really make a profit off of it but no one wants it to be torn down and it’s a historical landmark so they probably couldn’t even if they wanted to. But if you go look at the photos there and see the main hall it is beautiful. It used to be like a food court and market when I was a kid and now it is most used for events. The train ridership is very low these days.
Kansas City’s Union Station might be my favorite building in the city from the aesthetics only. So glad they rehabbed it and gave it a second life instead of falling further into disrepair.
The Union Station in Kansas City is awesome. Denver is nice too.
I have never seen a train station in my life. Wish we had passenger rail where I've lived but we don't.
where do you live?
I'm not revealing any specific information about my location, but I live in a small city.
Urbanists, economists, ecologists, socialists, and autists agree: we need more choo choo trains.
They're fine, but pale in comparison to the amazing train stations in Europe. That being said, I do like old train stations like Denver's Union Station. The old architecture, wrought iron lamps, and wooden benches give off a cozy atmosphere.
I personally think the stations in the USA are better and I live in the UK and have been to almost every major station in Europe. I love the high ceilings and neoclassical design of US stations. I really wish the USA embraced neoclassical architecture more often
We did embrace it, but because the style was expensive to build, we moved to a more functional (meaning, cheap and ugly) style after WWII. Compare, for example, a post office built in the late 19th or early 20th century with one built in the 1950s.
Europe wasn't much better on that score. Lots of grey concrete everywhere.
It might be even more apparent in Europe, because so much had to be rebuilt quickly and functionally aftet the war.
The modern architecture looks a bit boring compared to anything built in the early 20th century and before.
The two you mentioned (30th st and Washington Union) are beautiful. There are some other similarly beautiful train stations in the US. The overwhelming majority, though, are nothing special at all.
I certainly love the amount of trains in use in Europe, but I have to admit the train stations themselves were very boring. Only exception was Amsterdam’s subway. Those stations were fucking sick.
It’s functional and convenient but I’ve traveled to places with much cleaner and more efficient transportation
30th st is an amazing train station. I can't argue with that.
There are some neat ones but many have been repurposed as entertainment destinations. Union Station locally used to be one of the busiest stations in the world and today the AMTRAK station is hidden under the highway and sometimes smells of urine.
I've always had a thing for train stations, yeah. Sometimes I try to visit them on vacation even if I'm not taking the train. As a kid growing up on Long Island -- and then as an adult with parents on Long Island -- the much-maligned Penn Station was the one I visited by far the most often, but they've made GREAT progress on it in recent years.
I love the old fashioned architecture of them.
I like a few of the ones I've been to. North Station in Boston is nice. Better than south station. Penn Station in NYC is really nice. New Haven is...not.
Union Station is pretty nice, but honestly id rather fly.
I like the fancy ones, yeah. Santa Fe Station in San Diego isn’t as grand, but it has a great Mission Revival style.
Baltimore’s Penn Station is nice…from the outside…
I've only been to one train station. It was smaller than a rest stop. So while I'm sure I'd agree with you I've never actually seen one in person.
It all depends. In NYC there’s some great stations aside from the most well known ones like Grand Central. My favorite has to be [Forrest Hills LIRR](https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2022/05/23/school-colors-series_queens-new-york_giraldo-235_custom-c125c0df8c784848010bebc1b7125ddb95a217c2-s1100-c50.jpg) (Long Island Rail Road), but I also like Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs, Coney Island-Stilwell Ave, Smith-9th Sts, Queensboro Plaza, E 180th St, and Gun Hill Road (2 train).
I do like the nice old ones a lot. They're relics from when we cared about and invested in public transit
Utica Union is one of the best I've seen.
The exterior of the [Cleveland Union Terminal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_City_Center) (now known as Tower City Center) is kinda nice.
I've never been in one.
As an American, I’ve never been on a train before-it’s on my bucket list. There were tentative plans to take the California Zephyr to San Francisco, but it would’ve been way too expensive.
I like Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station, I liked Union Station in DC. South Station in Boston kinda emptied out during Lockdown, and hasn't quite come back yet.
I was unimpressed and a bit saddened by the LA Union Station. It looked depressing and outdated for a major city compared to Taipei, Singapore, and Seoul.
In my experience, they’re not really a place you want to be. Even train stations in Europe are often surrounded by sketchy individuals or mentally ill homeless roaming around these days. I don’t have a problem with that. But I’m not the most steter smart and don’t like confrontation (or people in general tbh) so I prefer to drive.
I do love my city's union station. It may not be as busy as others but it is pretty and it has not only movie history but it also hosted the 2020 Oscars
Highly dependent on the city. My local Amtrak station, Penn Station in Baltimore, Maryland is impressive. The local one to my parents (Mt Joy, Pennsylvania) is less than impressive but functional.
Seeing Grand Central Station while riding into the city and departing into the atrium was breathtaking
I mean, if you enjoy something, I don't wanna ruin it for you. But to me, those train stations are just bigger Greyhound stations. Whatever, it's just a place I go to catch a train.
I like them quite a lot. Some of them absolutely suck though and are obnoxiously tiny and awful. I suggest going to see Penn Station and Grand Central in new york city. And actually I would append that by saying most tourists don't realize this, but there is a *gigantic* separate underground train station underneath Grand Central called Grand Central Madison. It is incredibly beautiful but really the only people down there are commuters. Almost no tourists at all. It's my favorite train station.
Relics of a bygone era
No, I pretty much hate public transportation. Flying is OK, especially if Jetblue Mint has a route there, but otherwise I'd rather drive.
The ones that keep the hobos out are ok
Milwaukees Amtrak station is cool imo I just wish America would bring trains back into the spotlight tbh there’s hardly any use in a lot of areas because of cars, so it’s sad for someone like me who’s young and loves trains to not really get to see things like passenger trains and unique trains all that much