Talk:Union Station (Los Angeles)

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Fun/Odd Union Station Facts[edit]

I have a Newspapers.com Plus subscription and I was just reading the 1939-05-04 edition of the LA Times. I'm not much of a writer for articles. I can add a fact here and there, but this deserves it's own paragraph or more, which isn't something I do very well. For this reason, I thought I'd share some of the facts that it listed in case anyone is interested. I have linked to my clippings of the article, but I'm not sure if they're something you can see without a subscription or not. One I did add and source in the article already and that's in 1939, it cost $11,000,000 to build (so really there are two sources but I only did the other one). Here are the other facts:

They celebrated its opening with a parade.
It was estimated that 500,000 attended the parade.
In attendance were a number of railroad presidents, unspecified millionaires, people who owned private rail cars, governors (yes, plural) and mayors and people from "all the 48 states".
The actual dedication was on the 3rd. It says, "... it was really just the people of america—from all the 48 states—who really drove the spike that nailed down a chunk of history on Alameda St. yesterday noon." (sic)
People were climbing trees to see.
The parade route became so clogged with people, it took soldiers from the 63rd Coast Artillery battalion of the US Army to clear it.
Someone shot at the facade, which caused horses to "veer toward the squealing crowds" and a dog chased "a United States Army cannon expert across the station patio".
People were fainting from the heat.

That's only a few but the most important. The article is found on pages A1—A2, 6 (image pages 1—2, 8). Links: part 1, part 2 and part 3. There are a lot of other articles for further information in the same edition. I just selected the main article. MagnoliaSouth ^(talk) 19:41, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Coast Daylight restoration[edit]

Can someone please add the coast daylight to the list of proposed services? I tried to do it myself, but it didn't work. 192.203.40.252 (talk) 15:04, 29 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone? 2600:4041:7B25:C500:1D7E:C12C:80B2:E95A (talk) 04:06, 25 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in Union Station (Los Angeles)[edit]

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Union Station (Los Angeles)'s orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "July2020":

From Rancho Cucamonga station: Sharp, Steven (2020-07-07). "High-Speed Train to Las Vegas Takes Another Step Forward". Urbanize LA. Retrieved 2020-07-07.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
From Brightline West: Sharp, Steven (July 7, 2020). "High-Speed Train to Las Vegas Takes Another Step Forward". Urbanize LA. Retrieved July 7, 2020.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. Feel free to remove this comment after fixing the refs. AnomieBOT ⚡ 02:27, 11 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Fettlemap (talk) 06:26, 25 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Future services module unnecessary[edit]

I personally don't believe that we really need the "Future services" module in the infobox for now. CAHSR has no solid timeline for reaching Union, BLW has not even come close to making any concrete plans yet for expansion further than Rancho Cucamonga, let alone to Palmdale, and even then the implication is that they'd be reliant on CAHSR's completion of two separate phases with again, no clear timeframe of completion at this time. The Metrolink infill stations have no solid timeframe of completion, and even if they did, there is very little justification for including them since they won't substantially affect service patterns. The same goes for the Metro Rail's B and D Line station in the Arts District. As for the Southeast Gateway Line, it isn't forecast to reach Union until 2043. (Though to confess the Metrolink and Metro Rail entries were my contributions.) Its just all around WP:TOOSOON at best and WP:CRYSTALBALL at worst for extensions that may not see the light of day, at least in the forms predicted in this infobox. Thoughts? OrdinaryScarlett (talk) 08:09, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]