Union Station (South Bend, Indiana)

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Exterior of Union Station

General information

Location

326 West South Street
South Bend, Indiana

Coordinates

41°40′9.59″N 86°15′17.10″W / 41.6693306°N 86.2547500°W / 41.6693306; -86.2547500

Platforms

Tracks

Construction

Structure type

Art Deco architecture

History

Opened

1929

Closed

1971

Former services

Preceding station	New York Central Railroad		Following station
Lydicktoward Chicago		Main Line	Mishawakatoward New York
North Libertytoward Zearing		Kankakee Belt Route	Terminus
Lydicktoward St. Joseph		St. Joseph – South Bend
Nilestoward Benton Harbor		Benton Harbor – South Bend
Preceding station	Grand Trunk Western Railroad		Following station
Oliverstoward Chicago		Main Line	Studebakertoward Port Huron

Union Station Technology Center is a former union train station in South Bend, Indiana in the United States.

History

Opened in 1929 and situated across the tracks from the Studebaker auto plant, the building served the New York Central Railroad and Grand Trunk Western Railroad. It was designed by the architectural firm Fellheimer & Wagner. NYC's Detroit-Chicago "Great Steel Fleet" and GTW's Chicago-Canada trains used this station.

When the New York Central merged with the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1968 to make the Penn Central Transportation Company, it used the station as well. The last trains departed in 1971 when newly created Amtrak moved its operations to the South Shore Line station on the city's western outskirts about 1.8 miles (2.9 km) west of Union Station constructed by the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad a year earlier in 1970.

The building was purchased by South Bend native and University of Notre Dame graduate Kevin M. Smith in 1979.

Union Station Technology Center today is in use by Global Access Point, which renovated the facility to become a data center, housing computing equipment from outside companies. The Technology Center is a state-of-the-art hub for digital information, providing a location for small businesses, data centers, data transport and carrier operations.

The railway corridor adjacent to the station carries not only trains, but also a fiber-optic trunkline. The Union Station Technology Center functions as a colocation center.

In November 2019, the South Bend Tribune, the city's 147-year-old daily newspaper, moved its offices into Union Station Technology Center. The Tribune previously had been located at 225 West Colfax Avenue in South Bend.

References

Potter, Janet Greenstein (1996). Great American Railroad Stations. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. pp. 314–315. ISBN 9780471143895.
"Global Access Point - Union Station Technology Center".
Moreno, Hugo (September 29, 2014). "How Cloud and Fiber Are Turning Abandoned Factories Into Innovation Centers". Forbes. Retrieved 25 May 2022.

External links

South Bend Union Station (Great Railroad Stations -- TrainWeb)
Historic South Bend Railroads and Stations (South Bend's Historical Heritage) Archived 2010-03-30 at the Wayback Machine
Union Station Technology Center Archived 2016-12-29 at the Wayback Machine (Global Access Point website)

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Closed in 1920s Closed in 1930s Closed in 1940s Closed in 1950s Closed in 1960s Closed by Penn Central Closed by Amtrak Re-opened in 1930s Re-opened in 1940s Italics - bypassed station

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