Today in History – May 2: Last train leaves Omaha’s Union Station

(WOWT) – On this day 1971, the last train left Omaha’s Union Station.

Union Station had been open for four decades and welcomed as many as 64 trains and 10,000 passengers a day at the height of train travel.

Union Station closed after Congress established the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, known as Amtrak today, to handle all railroad passenger travel…

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