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A gilded stable for the iron horse. (Washington's Union Station reopens)

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From: U.S. News & World Report
Date: 19881010
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Railway terminals were once "our gates to the glorious and the unknown," as E. M. Forster wrote. But as the automobile and airplane shoved trains aside, grand stations across America crumbled. Some were demolished, others turned into clever replicas of themselves, Ye Olde Train Station shopping arcades.

Last week, Washington's Union Station reopened, remarkably, as itself: A functioning train station repossessed of its original grandeur. The Roman arches are as imposing now as when they were builtin 1907 in America's Imperial Age. The 90-foot vaulted ceiling is ...

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