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Did you know … ?
- Union Terminal cost $41 million, including purchase of ground and readjusting railroad facilities.
- Union Terminal takes up an area of 287 acres with 94 miles of track laid.
- 22 distinct buildings were constructed including 224,534 cubic yards of concrete poured, not including 100,500 square yards of paving, 8,250,000 bricks and 45,421 net tons of steel used in bridge and building construction.
- The Cincinnati Union Terminal Company, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and the City of Cincinnati built the Western Hills Viaduct for a cost of $3.5 million. The viaduct is 3,500 feet long—2,800 feet of double-deck construction.
- The Rotunda interior dome spans 180 feet, with a clear height of 106 feet.
- The station could accommodate 17,000 passengers and 216 trains—108 in and 108 out—daily
- The last passenger train left Union Terminal Saturday evening, October 28, 1972. Passenger service resumed when Amtrak began operating at Union Terminal on July 29, 1991.
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