Question about an elevated train station

[keeper]

I have an unused frame which is approx. 1380 x 680 mm in size (54,3 x 26,7 inch). I'm thinking of building a diorama which might be be used as a module as well, but the diorama would be the main purpose.
There are some ideas buzzing around in my head and building a train station is one of them.

In fact, it is this station:

https://www.dm-toys.de/en/product-details/MU_N-L00122.html

I know, this station screams BERLIN, but I have to ask anyway. Does or did a station like this exist somewhere in the US? I'm afraid not...

Thomas 

[Cajonpassfan]

Ha! A very nice model, and nice architecture, but even for a German setting, this would have been more of an S-Bahn, or elevated city/suburban railway stop in a dense urban setting. Too short for anything else.
Just my 2 cents....
Otto K.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Kinda reminds me of some of the stations in the UK, or the one in Dublin.

[thomasjmdavis]

There were some fairly elegant elevated stations on railroads and transit in large US cities - here is a station on the Boston Elevated Railway
https://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/5142859685

I have no idea if any look like the example in the OP link. Most in my experience are rather "spartan" on the upper level- just platforms with enough roof to keep rain off the passengers.

[conrad]

Although not elegant, there is the Long Island Railroad (LIRR) elevated station at Jamaica, Queens, NY.  It has the LIRR, the AirTrain to JFK airport and the NYC subway.

Check it out on wiki "Jamaica Station".

Conrad

[keeper]

Ha! A very nice model, and nice architecture, but even for a German setting, this would have been more of an S-Bahn, or elevated city/suburban railway stop in a dense urban setting. Too short for anything else.
Just my 2 cents....
Otto K.

You are right, the model is a bit short, but there are extension kits available, which is good. 
There are stations like this in Berlin and Hamburg where both types of trains make a stop. You could see long distance trains (ICE) as well as S-Bahn or commuter trains in the same station.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg_Dammtor_station

Thomas

[keeper]

Kinda reminds me of some of the stations in the UK, or the one in Dublin.

I don't know Dublin but I agree, definitely a station in the UK could look like this.

[keeper]

There were some fairly elegant elevated stations on railroads and transit in large US cities - here is a station on the Boston Elevated Railway
https://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/5142859685

I have no idea if any look like the example in the OP link. Most in my experience are rather "spartan" on the upper level- just platforms with enough roof to keep rain off the passengers.

These Boston images are very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Check it out on wiki "Jamaica Station".

That's interesting as well.

Now I have even more ideas....

Thomas

[DKS]

The top half sorta kinda reminds me of parts of Union Station in Chicago:



And the bottom half is reminiscent of the Lincoln Square freight station in Philly:

[cv_acr]

North Toronto (CP, no longer used as a train station) and Winnipeg Union (CN/VIA, still in use) come to mind as stations with elevated tracks/platforms/train sheds above street, level, and many other major metropolitan downtown stations have waiting areas and access halls tunnelled under the tracks, and street underpasses effectively elevate the tracks onto a viaduct, so having stations tracks and platforms elevated in a major urban station is common, but that architecture definitely looks Euro.

[Bobster]

Good afternoon,

It kind of resembles the Rock Island depot in Des Moines Iowa, but the arched windows are on top

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Or Peoria Illinois

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Bobster

[mmagliaro]

The shape of the building is completely different, of course, but Reading Terminal, in Philadelphia was another famous elevated station like this.   Is there a reason that is can't be in an urban setting?  It seems to me that anything like this is going to be in the downtown section of a city.