Earth 1946
11.25" x 19" Colored Pencil on Paper
This was created from a photo that my father took of Union Station in
Lexington, Kentucky in 1946. The freight train is a C&O train headed
for Louisville, Ky. and the passenger train, NO. 260, is coming in from
Ellesmere Ky.
The downtown scene is the train side of Union Station. The large red
building in the upper right is the Phoenix Hotel. The backside of
Kresge Dept. store (which stores became K Mart) is next to the hotel.
The street in the back center is Water Street. Every building and some
of the streets in this scene are now just a memory. The station was torn
down, and the rest of the downtown was completely revamped in the
1970's and 80's.
Union Station was a grand building, with stained glass skylights and
served the passengers since opening is 1907. The railroad went through
several mergers and ended serving the C&O line and the L&N line.