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Back when a train station was a TRAIN STATION, beautiful architectural details like this were included. Here's one still in fine shape today.

Ed

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San Diego, California.

KCCharlie

Veerrrry good! San Diego it is.

Ed

Auburn_Ed Wrote:
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> Back when a train station was a TRAIN STATION,
> beautiful architectural details like this were
> included. Here's one still in fine shape today.
>
> Ed


Back when a train station was a TRAIN STATION, they were called "railroad stations." The current "train station" is apparently a product of modern day road signs that say "Train Station" altering younger people's usage.

When I was a young man and through the 1970s, no one called them anything other than a railroad station or, for a few old-timers, a depot.

Art Old Fart House
Gettysburg, Pa.

Absolutely gorgeous! Amazing that it hasn't been vandalized in all these years.

We called them "depots" in Central California..., pronounced "deepoe"

Bill Deaver
Tehachapi, CA

Everything in depot....pronounced "de-pot", nowdays....

Lots of people today call railroads "train companies". Just further evidence of the dumbing-down of America.

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The tile work at San Diego Station looks so good because it was restored a few years back with newly minted exact replica tiles. There were some leftovers and they were sold at a local train meet a years or so ago.

Growing up in the '40s/'50s, I recall hearing depot, station and train station used, but do not recall hearing railroad station as a verbal expression back then. I also recall hearing bus station used to differentiate from (train) station. The word station seemed to imply train/railroad without being said in those days. AA

Stanford White
Carmel Valley, CA

At the southern end of the building -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/era51/2794096858/sizes/o/
...Lorenzo

My dad always thought it was clever to say " when some people have to go, they go to the train depot, when others needed to go they went to the bus depot, but when he had to go he just went to de pot.

agentatascadero Wrote:
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> Growing up in the '40s/'50s, I recall hearing
> depot, station and train station used, but do not
> recall hearing railroad station as a verbal
> expression back then. I also recall hearing bus
> station used to differentiate from (train)
> station. The word station seemed to imply
> train/railroad without being said in those days.
> AA

Steve Donaldson
Pacific Grove, CA

We called them train stations in the Fifties and Sixties and when neighbors from South of the Mason-Dixon Line moved in they they called them depots. This lead to fist-d-cuffs on several occasions. What the heck is a depot? Some kind of Army place were they stored supplies that was what a depot was. They were train stations, trains stopped there, railroads didn't pull up and stop, just trains.
Gonut