Atlanta Union Station (1930)

The Union Station built in 1930 in Atlanta was the smaller of two principal train stations in downtown, Terminal Station being the other. It was the third "union station" or "union depot", succeeding the 1853 station, which the U.S. military destroyed in November 1864 along with other Confederate war infrastructure, and the 1871 station.

Overview

The station was located over the tracks between Forsyth and Spring Streets, three blocks west and one block south of the predecessor union stations.
The site is the block immediately west of Five Points MARTA station.
Opening on April 18, 1930, the third Union Station served the Georgia Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line, and Louisville and Nashville. It replaced earlier stations on the same site.
Major trains and destinations:

Atlantic Coast Line -in partnership with L&N:
*The Dixie Flagler – Chicago, via Chattanooga, TN, Nashville, TN and Evansville, IN; continuing south to Jacksonville and Miami, FL
*The Dixie Flyer – Chicago, via Chattanooga, TN, Nashville, TN and Evansville, IN; continuing south to Jacksonville and Tampa, FL; shortened in 1965 to an Atlanta to Jacksonville ACL route.
Georgia Railroad:
*The Georgia Cannonball - Augusta, GA for connecting trains to Atlantic Coast Line Railroad service and to Southern Railway service
Louisville and Nashville:
*The Flamingo – Cincinnati, via Knoxville, TN; continuing south to Jacksonville, FL, via Albany
*The Georgian – Chicago, via Nashville and Evansville
*The Southland - Chicago, via Cincinnati, OH, Knoxville, TN; continuing south to Macon, then branching to various points in Florida. This train traveled to Terminal Station before going south to Trilby and Florida.

After the tenant railroads of Union Station had discontinued all their passenger trains, demolition started in August 1971, and the station was razed in 1972.
Remnants of the platform may be seen behind the Atlanta Journal-Constitution building although construction of Underground Atlanta and MARTA largely obliterated the site.
There have been plans to resurrect Union station with another intermodal facility, but they have not gotten past the proposal phase. The Atlanta area is currently served by the Peachtree station by Amtrak.