AMTK 548 • Louisville KY • 07/05/76

            Amtrak train 57, The Floridian, makes a stop at Union Station in Louisville, Kentucky, on July 5, 1976.  This train, with a pair of SDP40Fs on the head-end, 325 miles into its journey from Chicago IL to Jacksonville FL, where the train will be split and head to both Tampa/St. Petersburg and Miami.  Fifteen minutes is allotted for this stop, in order to water the engines' steam generators - which explains the hoses on the ground.  Louisville's Union Station was opened by the Louisville & Nashville on September 7, 1881 (although the station would not be completed until 1889 due to rising costs).  By the 1920s, this station was serving 58 trains per day for a variety of railroads besides the L&N, including the Monon, the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Louisville Henderson & St. Louis (which would eventually be merged into the L&N).  Sadly, today this station serves no passenger trains, as Amtrak's Floridian began using a suburban station near the Louisville Airport in October 1976 (until trains 56 and 57 were discontinued in 1979), and from 2001 to 2003 the tri-weekly Kentucky Cardinal served Louisville (on a new track on the west side of Union Station's parking lot).  Today there is no Amtrak service in Louisville.  
   

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