Giving Back #16 Nashville's Union Station Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

The Seanachai: Greetings from Geocaching.com,

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The Seanachai
Geocaching.com Volunteer Cache Reviewer for Tennessee

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Hidden : 4/28/2010
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

At my 1000th cache event I was given 20 cache containers by my fellow cachers. I have set out to give them all back. This is the 16th of the 20.
This cache is accessible from the side walk along Demonbreum Street. You do not have to enter any railroad property.

In 1886 fire destroyed the Louisville & Nashville Railroad's passenger depot and they had to move into the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad's depot located a few blocks north of here on the other side of the Church Street viaduct. The plan was to build a new depot for both railroads. At this time most railroads served different areas and it was common to share depots so that passengers could move from one railroad to another to continue to their distination, or railroads would transfer the whole train from one to another to continue. When they shared a depot it was named a "Union Station".

The idea was to get this new Union Station built a soon as possible. However epidemics, floods, the financial panic of 1893, and governmental delays prevented this from happening until 1898, that is when the new depot was started. And on Sept. 3 1900 the new depot was opened to the public. It was one of the grandest in the South at the time it was built. One of its technological wonders was its digital clock at the top of its 219 foot tower. This clock used silk belts made in France to drive numbers printed on cloth panels. This was replaced with the analog clock in 1917 when it was to expensive to obtain replacement belts. Another technological wonder was the train shed which stood over the parking lot you see below you (you can still see where some of the tracks were). It was the longest single-span gable roof structure in America covering an area of 250x500 feet. It was damaged by fire in 1996 and torn down in 2001.

The last train to use the Union Station was the Amtrak Floridian which was discontinued in 1979. The depot sat neglected until 1986 when it was redone and used as a hotel. The re-modelers did a spectacular job retaining the look and feel of the depot while re-purposing it.

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