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(Redirected from Baker Street Station (Fort Wayne, Indiana)) Historic train station in Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.

Fort Wayne, IN

Passengers board Amtrak's Broadway Limited at the station in 1974

General information

Location

221 Baker Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana
USA

History

Opened

March 23, 1914

Closed

November 11, 1990

Former services

Preceding station	Amtrak		Following station
Warsawtoward Chicago		Broadway Limited	Limatoward New York
Warsawtoward Chicago		Capitol Limited	Limatoward Washington, D.C.
Preceding station	Pennsylvania Railroad		Following station
Arcolatoward Chicago		Main Line	Maplestoward New York or Exchange Place
Huntertowntoward Mackinaw City		Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway	Hoaglandtoward Richmond
Preceding station	Wabash Railroad		Following station
Roanoketoward St. Louis		St. Louis – Detroit	New Haventoward Detroit
Terminus		Fort Wayne – Toledo	New Haventoward Toledo

Pennsylvania Railroad Station

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

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Location

221 West Baker Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana

Coordinates

41°4′20″N 85°8′26″W / 41.07222°N 85.14056°W / 41.07222; -85.14056

Built

1914

Architect

George B. Swift & Co., William L. Price

Architectural style

American Craftsman

NRHP reference No.

98001056

Added to NRHP

1998

The Pennsylvania Railroad Station in Fort Wayne, Indiana, also known as Baker Street Station, is a former passenger rail station in downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana. The American Craftsman-style station opened to the public March 23, 1914, at a cost of $550,000.

History

The station saw its most heavy usage during World War II, when about 3,000 visitors passed through the station daily. The station was also frequented by politicians on whistle stop train tours, including U.S. Presidents Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower. Until 1957 a Grand Rapids originating branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad's Chicago-Florida Southland made a stop in at the station, and picked up passengers from a connecting Wabash Railroad train from Detroit, Michigan. Until 1961 the PRR's Cincinnati, Ohio-Mackinaw City, Michigan Northern Arrow also made a stop there, and picked up connecting passenger rail cars from Chicago. Until 1971 the Penn Central ran the Broadway Limited and several other Chicago-New York City passenger trains, Admiral, Manhattan Limited and Pennsylvania Limited through the station.

In the second half of the 20th century, the station served as a stop on Amtrak's Broadway Limited (Chicago—Pittsburgh—New York) and Capitol Limited (Chicago–Pittsburgh–Washington) lines until November 1990 when Amtrak was forced to reroute about 25 miles (40 km) north of Fort Wayne. The nearest active passenger train station is Waterloo (for the Capitol Limited), 32 miles to the north.

Today, Baker Street Station's concourse is used as a banquet hall and community events space, while the east and west wings have been converted into office space. Over the last decade, residents and local leaders have begun a movement to bring passenger rail service back to the city and station in the form of Amtrak or other high-speed rail service.

Although the station has been without passenger rail service for over 30 years, it has remained a landmark to the city, designated a Fort Wayne Local Historic District in 1990. and later, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998 as the Pennsylvania Railroad Station.

References

"Amtrak Switches Lines to Chicago". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. November 12, 1990. p. 10. Retrieved January 12, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Indiana, Allen County". National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
^ "History". Baker Street Train Station. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
"Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved July 1, 2015. Note: This includes Creager Smith (July 1997). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Pennsylvania Railroad Station" (PDF). Retrieved July 1, 2015. and Accompanying photographs
Pennsylvania Railroad August 1950 timetable, Table C
Louisville and Nashville December 1948, Table E
Pennsylvania Railroad August 1950 timetable, Table 22
Kanary, George E. (June 2011). "Things Were Not the Same After May 1, 1971" (PDF). First and Fastest. p. 19. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 13, 2016.
Sanders (2006), 24–25.
"Banquet Facility". Baker Street Train Station. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
Caylor, Bob (April 4, 2009). "Rally for Fort Wayne train service draws hundreds". The News-Sentinel. Archived from the original on April 18, 2009. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
"Fort Wayne Local Historic Districts". Architecture and Community Heritage (ARCH). Archived from the original on June 24, 2013. Retrieved June 18, 2013.

External links

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City of Fort Wayne

Economy

Largest employers	Air National Guard Station BAE Systems BFGoodrich Dana General Motors Frontier Communications Harris Corporation Lincoln Financial Group Norfolk Southern Raytheon Systems SIRVA

Headquarters	Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company Do it Best Franklin Electric Genteq Indiana Michigan Power K&K Insurance MedPro Group North American Van Lines Rea Magnet Wire Steel Dynamics Sweetwater Sound Vera Bradley

Attractions

Venues	Allen County War Memorial Coliseum Arts United Center Embassy Theatre Grand Wayne Convention Center Hefner Soccer Complex Hilliard Gates Sports Center Mastodon Field Parkview Field

Education

Public schools	East Allen Fort Wayne Community Northwest Allen Southwest Allen

Higher education	Concordia Theological Seminary Huntington Indiana Tech Indiana Wesleyan IU Fort Wayne Ivy Tech Manchester School of Pharmacy Purdue Fort Wayne Saint Francis Trine

Private schools	Lutheran Schools of Indiana Roman Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne–South Bend

Healthcare
IU Health Lutheran Health Network Dupont Lutheran Parkview Health

Sports
Sports Derby Girls Komets TinCaps Indiana Tech Warriors Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons Saint Francis Cougars

Transportation
Airport Expressway Baker Street Station Citilink International Airport Rivergreenway Smith Field I-69 I-469 US 24 US 27 US 30 US 33 SR 1 SR 3 SR 14 SR 37 SR 930

Category
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