The heyday of the American railway may be in the increasingly distant past, but the country’s golden age of trains sure did give us some spectacular buildings. LA’s Union Station, which calls itself ‘The Last of the Great Railway Stations’, was in fact a relatively late example of this: built just before World War II, it remains controversial for displacing the city’s original Chinese neighbourhood. The almost church-like design blends Art Deco and Spanish colonial-era features that were popular in Californian architecture at the time.
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