Union Station – Washington DC

Both Lindsay and I love to travel by train. Because of this we both love and appreciate the feeling of coming/going through a beautiful train station. Unfortunately this experience can be hard to come by in the United States but there are still a few train station “gems” to be found. One of these is the beautiful and iconic Union Station in Washington DC. In late summer 2009 I was on a business trip in Baltimore and Lindsay flew out to meet me. We meet at the “Camden Yard” train station to catch the incredibly efficient train down to Washington DC. Within a few minutes we were pulling into Union Station. Lindsay almost died when she first walked off the platform and into the HUGE grand hall (I was also very impressed but had previously been there on the same business trip). The interior of the station is clean, bright and very spacious. The floor is made of white marble and the dome ceilings go on forever. There are numerous shops and restaurants and we loved the station so much that we ended up eating at one of the restaurants right in the middle of the grand hall. We ended up coming back to Union station numerous times to explore, catch the metro, etc, etc. It truly is one of the few great train stations left in the United States.