This view looks west down Lexington’s Union Station railroad yards in winter 1956. The photo was taken from atop the Harrison Street (now Martin Luther King Boulevard) viaduct. Union Station opened in 1907, and the last train left the station in 1957, and the station was torn down in 1960. The last passenger train at the Southern Railway station pulled out in 1970. The last L&N train left shortly after. The city’s last passenger train, the Chesapeake & Ohio’s George Washington, left Lexington on May 1, 1971. The tracks were removed shortly after, and Vine Street, which can be seen on the left side of the photo, was widened in their place. Click here to see more images of Union Station from our archives.