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Union Station’s Rehabilitation, Captured in Photos Taken After the TWA Mount Weather Air Disaster

  • Published April 10, 2014
Union Station under construction in 1974
Check out this photo of Union Station being rehabilitated after the TWA Mount Weather air disaster. Thankfully they saved it instead of knocking it down like so many other buildings back then. See the photo taken two weeks after the disaster here!
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Check out this photo of Union Station being rehabilitated. Thankfully they saved it instead of knocking it down like they did so many other beautiful old buildings back then (i.e., look at everything in L’Enfant -… ugh). The photo below was taken on December 20th, 1974, two weeks after the TWA Mount Weather air disaster.

Union Station under construction in 1974
Union Station under construction in 1974

Source: Library of Congress

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