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| #1307989 in Books | Univ Of Minnesota Press | 2013-04-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 11.00 x.90 x10.00l,3.63 | File type: PDF | 304 pages | ||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Well researched and written|By George A. Forero|This is much more than a history of the Depot itself. It is a concise history of the railroads and passenger trains that served St. Paul (and Minnesota) as well as a history of the depots that preceded the final union station. The construction of the depot is covered as well as its heyday and its inevitable decline. The mail handl||
|"|The story of the Union Depot is St. Paul’s story. By chronicling the history of this magnificent building from the vantage point of its current renewal, John Diers gives us an insight into how we became the city we are today.|" —St. Pa
St. Paul Union Depot was among the busiest and best-known places in the city—one of the largest depots in the nation and St. Paul’s link to the world. It had nine platforms, twenty-one tracks, and well over 140 trains coming and going each day. At its peak in the 1920s, the Union Depot processed more than twenty million pieces of mail each year. Construction of the new depot began in 1917, among the burned remains of the previous depot, and was fi...
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