This photograph shows Houston's Grand Central Station shortly before its demolition in 1959. The station exclusively served Southern Pacific Railroad trains, although the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad (MKT) inquired about using the station for their trains in 1941, 1945, and 1950. Southern Pacific feared possible loss of mail and express business to the MKT would not be offset by rental charges and declined their requests. When Grand Central Station opened in 1934, it served 28 trains each day, but by 1959, it was serving only four trains per day. The station was in service for only 25 years before being replaced by a modest two-platform facility, that now serves Amtrack trains. Most of the land occupied by Houston’s Grand Central Station was sold to the General Services Administration for construction of a U.S. post office in 1959. (Joe R. Thompson courtesy of the Railroad and Heritage Museum Temple, Texas.)
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