Modern Ogilvie Transportation Center

Ogilvie Transportation Center (formally, the Richard B. Ogilvie Transportation Center) is a Chicago, Illinois train station which was in built 1911. Chicago was then and remains the railroad and transportation center of the United States. Formerly known as North Western Station for its former owner, the Chicago and Northwestern Railway, the station was re-named for Richard Buell Ogilvie (former governor of Illinois, former board member of the Milwaukee Road and lifelong railroad proponent), in 1997 (two years after the C&NW ceased to exist). The station is still known colloquially as "Northwestern Station". Image File history File links Ogilvie Transportation Center (train station) in Chicago, IL Photo taken by user DaveofCali (David Liu) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Ogilvie Transportation Center (train station) in Chicago, IL Photo taken by user DaveofCali (David Liu) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Chicago, Illinois — officially the City of Chicago and colloquially known as Chicago, the Second City and the Windy City — is the third largest city of the United States after New York City and Los Angeles and is the largest inland city of the nation. ... Passengers bustle around the typical grand edifice of Londons Broad Street Station in 1865. ... 1911 is a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... This is the top-level page of WikiProject trains Rail tracks Rail transport refers to the land transport of passengers and goods along railways or railroads. ... The Chicago and North Western Railway (AAR reporting marks: CNW, CNWS, CNWZ) was a Class 1 railroad in the United States. ... Richard Buell Ogilvie (1923–1988) was an American political figure. ... The Milwaukee Road, officially the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

North Western station was dramatically modified in 1984, when the Renaissance Revival-style headhouse was razed and replaced with the glass-and-steel 42-story Citicorp Center, which was completed in 1987. Ogilvie Transportation Center now occupies two square blocks of downtown Chicago, bounded by Randolph Street, Canal Street, Madison Street and Clinton Street. 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Intercity passenger rail service is handled at nearby Union Station, but the station is still the Chicago destination for three Metra lines of C&NW successor Union Pacific Railroad. In the waiting room of the Union Station, January 1943 Union Station is a Chicago, Illinois train station which was built 1913–1925, during the time when Chicago reigned as the undisputed railroad center of the United States. ... Metra is Chicagolands commuter rail system, serving over 200 stations on eleven lines across the Regional Transportation Authoritys (RTAs) six-county service area. ... The Union Pacific Railroad (NYSE: UNP) is the largest railroad in the United States. ...

References

Keefe, Kevin P. "City of Six Stations", in Trains Magazine, July 2003, p. 69.