The Livingston Depot (livingstondepot. org)

The Livingston Depot is a restored 1902 Northern Pacific Railroad (NP) train station anchoring the downtown historic district of Livingston, Montana. The Northern Pacific Railway was a railway that operated in the north-central region of the United States. |}A train station, railway station, railroad station, or station yard is a facility at which Passengers may board and alight from Trains A historic district in the United States is a group of buildings properties or sites that have been designated by one of several entities on different levels as historically or architecturally Livingston is a city in and the County seat of Park County, Montana, United States. It was designed by the Minnesota firm of Reed and Stem, the first architects for New York City's Grand Central Station in an Italianate style with red and yellow brick and ornate terra cotta detailing from lions' heads to floral figures and the NP's trademark yin-yang emblem, and its interior includes inlaid terrazzo and tiling including the same NP emblem. The City of New York "Grand Central Station" redirects here For other uses see Grand Central. Terra cotta ( Italian: "baked earth" is a Ceramic. Its uses include vessels water & waste water pipes and surface embellishment in Building construction In Chinese philosophy, the concept of yin and yang ( is used to describe how seemingly opposing forces are bound together intertwined and interdependent in the Terrazzo is a Faux - Marble flooring or Countertopping material The complex combines a main building, a restaurant building, and a baggage building with a colonnade surrounding a courtyard facing the railroad tracks. It had two predecessors, an 1882 wooden facility, which burned down, and a second brick structure, which came to be inadequate for the increasing and somewhat affluent passenger traffic the NP was bringing to visit Yellowstone National Park. The current facility was constructed in approximately three years and dedicated in summer of 1902. It would host active rail traffic including the North Coast Limited runs. The North Coast Limited was a named passenger train operated by the Northern Pacific Railway between Chicago and Seattle via Bismarck North Dakota

The earliest fortunes of the Depot were tied to the fate of the railroad. Initially it was a busy connection center, sited adjacent to the large Livingston shops complex and served as the NP's Central Division headquarters, being roughly equidistant between the termini of St. Paul, Minnesota, and Seattle, Washington. Saint Paul ( abbreviated St Paul) is the capital and second most populous city in the U Toward about World War II, rail travel to the park tapered off heavily in favor of automobile visits, and chiefly charter excursions used the Yellowstone Park line. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including In 1970 the NP merged with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, Great Northern Railway, and Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway, forming the facility's new owner, the Burlington Northern Railroad; passenger train service was taken over by Amtrak in 1971. The Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad was a railroad that operated in the Midwestern United States. The Great Northern Railway, running from St Paul Minnesota to Seattle Washington &mdash more than 1700 miles (2736 km &mdash was the creation of The Spokane Portland and Seattle Railway was a United States -based Railroad incorporated in 1905 The Burlington Northern Railroad was a United States -based Railroad company operating between 1970 and 1996 In 1979 Amtrak discontinued passenger service entirely along the NP's line in favor of the Empire Builder track on the high line, the old line of the Great Northern, and the Depot began to suffer some neglect. The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Doing business as Amtrak, is a Government-owned corporation that was organized on May 1, 1971 The Empire Builder is a Passenger train route operated by Amtrak in the Midwestern and Northwestern United States. By the mid 1980s the BN began unsuccessfully to seek a buyer for it. Local citizens lobbied for its donation to the city and adoption by the non-profit Livingston Depot Foundation they created for its extensive restoration and subsequent operation.

In summer of 1987 it opened as the Livingston Depot Center, operating as a museum and community center in the heart of the city, as it continues to operate today. The museum opens typically from late May to mid-September, and the facility during the off-season hosts wedding receptions, holiday parties, blues and other concerts, cards nights, historic talks, economic development forums, and similar events, and a model railroad club meets in its basement. Model railroading (US or Railway modelling (UK Australia and Canada is a Hobby in which Rail transport systems are modeled at a reduced scale During the July 4th weekend it hosts a festival of arts in the adjacent Depot Rotary Park running parallel to the train tracks. Events 836 - Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples The facility also underwent a roof restoration and restabilization project from approximately 2004 to 2007.

See also

• Livingston, Montana
• Park County, Montana

External links

• Official Website
• Blues at the Depot music series official site]
• Northern Pacific Railway Historic Association]