Baltimore’s Union Station
The older station that was replaced by the still used Baltimore Pennsylvania Station
1900 North Charles Street
Being used by several railroads, the Union Station was named as a union of all the railroads that used it. The early station was actually several older stations that were rebuilt over the years. The railroads in the early years didn’t believe the station would attract much traffic, which over the years proved to be wrong.
By 1906, an article that more or less had nothing positive to say about any of Baltimore’s Railroad depots, said this about Union Station. ” An architectural offense, a mass of inconveniences and a constant menace to life and limp.”
Proposals in 1906 for the “New Union Station” placed the station North of Mt Royal Station, near the intersection of North Avenue and Mount Royal Avenue, on the west side of Maryland Avenue. That location was not used.
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