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1. Union Station, Washington, D.C. (1907)
One of the first great union stations, a triumph of Beaux-Arts architecture with no expense spared. The coffered ceiling is laced with gold leaf, and rows of marble centurions keep watch over the main hall.
2. Birmingham Terminal Station, AL (1909)
As the motorcar flourished, many of the great stations fell into disuse and were demolished. Birmingham's great Byzantine / Beaux-Arts station was razed in 1969 to make way for a new highway.
3. Main Street Station, Richmond, VA (1901)
The proximity of the I-95 overpass to this brick clocktower says everything about the attitude to America's railway in the mid-20th century. Still, its Second Renaissance Revival architecture lights up the city.
4. 30th Street Station, Philadelphia, PA (1933)
The outside is Neoclassical, but the main concourse is like a spectacular Art Deco cathedral. When you head outside the station, you enter the city through 70-foot Corinthian columns.
5. Cincinnati Union Terminal, OH (1933)
The boldest Art Deco design was the one in Cincinnati. Its ten-story, half-domed entrance is adorned all the way around with mural mosaics that tell the history of Cincinnati.
6. Union Station, Los Angeles, CA (1939)
The main station in L.A. blended Spanish Colonial and Art Deco styles - a mix of terracotta and marble that came to epitomize the glamor of Southern California.
7. King Street Station, Seattle, WA (1906)
Almost as remarkable as its ceiling is the intricate mosaic floor. In 2010 it was restored to its original glory, overturning previous attempts to "modernize" its ceiling with bland tiles.
8. Grand Central Station, NYC, NY (1913)
Manhattan's Grand Central, one of the nation's busiest stations, is famed for its mighty Beaux-Arts concourse. However, light doesn't quite pour into it like it used to due to the surrounding skyscrapers. This is how it looked in 1929:
9. Penn Station, NYC, NY (1910)
Possibly the world's greatest railway station was built in New York. It was torn down in 1963 to build Madison Square Garden, and the station was forced underground: “One entered the city like a god; one scuttles in now like a rat.”
10. Penn Station, Newark, NJ (1935)
Fortunately, another Penn Station still survives, but on a smaller scale. Newark's Neoclassical / Art Deco gem was designed by the same team as the one in Manhattan, just twelve miles away.
The Art Deco era brought not just great stations, but great trains to boot. Take the "Mercury", a streamliner passenger train which operated in the Midwest between 1936 and 1959:
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