A related aspect of technology involves railroad architecture. Nearly all of the following titles examine urban stations. The great monuments to the Railway Age have had their own studies. The premier overview is The Railroad Station: An Architectural History, by Carroll L. V. Meeks. A similar study, albeit more focused, is Janet Greenstein Potter’s Great American Railroad Stations. Kurt C. Schlichting and Lorraine B. Diehl cover New York City’s two signature terminals. Schlichting’s Grand Central Terminal: Railroads, Engineering, and Architecture in New York City examines New York Central’s mid-town marvel, and Diehl looks at Pennsylvania Railroad’s Penn Station in The Late, Great Pennsylvania Station. The 1894 St. Louis Union Station is the subject of two books, St. Louis Union Station, a Place for Trains by this author, Donovan L. Hofsommer, and Osmund Overby; and St. Louis Union Station and Its Railroads, by Norbury L. Wayman. John W. Diers examines St. Paul, Minnesota, in St. Paul Union Depot; Marilyn Musicant looks at Los Angeles in her edited Los Angeles Union Station; and Fred Ash covers the Windy City’s newest terminal in his Chicago Union Station. The lesser studied small-town depots are the subject of The Country Railroad Station in America by this author and Charles W. Bohi, as well of Kansas Depots by this author. Also insightful are Robert F. Lord’s Country Depots in the Connecticut Hills and Railroad Stations in Nebraska, by James J. Reisdorff and Michael M. Bartels.
