Marion Union Station


Marion Union Station is a former passenger railroad station at 532 W. Center Street in Marion, Ohio. As a union station it served several train lines: the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway or CCC & St. L., and Erie Railroad. These lines intersected at the station, so it was a significant transfer point between different geographic points. It was built in 1902, it featured marble walls and patterned mosaic tiles on the floor. In 1923 it was the last stop on president Warren Harding's funeral train. It was a canteen stop for soldiers during World War II. It had its last long distance train in 1971 with the end of the Chesapeake & Ohio's connector line to the George Washington.
Into the 1960s it was a stop for several long distance passenger trains on the following railroads:
Presently the station is the site of a museum run by the Marion Union Station Association.
About 60 CSX and Norfolk Southern freight trains pass by each day.