Height
Trains connote horizontal travel and buildings that hug the street level. Yet many stations give visitors reason to look up (at station towers, nearby buildings, and city skylines) or look down (from higher vantage points). Verticality as unexpected delight.
New York || Grand Central Terminal || 1913 + Met Life Building || 1963
Buffalo || Buffalo Central Terminal || 1929
Portland || Union Station || 1899, long before the pinstriped Postal Service building
Cheyenne, Wyoming || Union Pacific Depot || 1887
Nashville || Union Station || 1900
St. Louis || Union Station || 1894
Kansas City || Union Station || 1914 (view from Westin hotel)
Vatican City || Stazione Vaticana || 1933 (view from St. Peter's Basilica)
Huntsville, Alabama || Huntsville Depot || 1860
Wilmington, Delaware || Wilmington Station || 1907
Harrisburg (Pa.) Transportation Center || 1950 (view through parking-garage screen)
Baltimore || Penn Station || Male/Female by Jonathan Borofsky (2004) at 51 feet tall