Norfolk's Union Station

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I agree it sounds funny, but that's what I found in my research at the Kirn Library.  Would like to know where that zero milepost was, though ...

Jim Kelling, Maryland


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OK - just to pick a few nits (and I am not questioning the accuracy of J.'s information) and to have a little fun...

Isn't "Terminal Station" an oxymoron?  A terminal is at the end of the line while a station is an intermediate stop.  Can you have both in one?

In general conversations, I have heard the Norfolk site referred to as either "Norfolk Terminal" or "Union Station".  As most of you know, the entire complex of NS yards and tracks in our area is also called the Norfolk Terminal.

Jerry Kay, Portsmouth, Va

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> Though it was a "Union Station" in that it served more than one railroad, I 

> believe its actual name was "Norfolk Terminal Station," according to the Kirn 

> Library's material. 

> 

> J. Kelling, Maryland