Atlantic City Union Station

PRSL trains began operating in Atlantic City Union Station on 30 September 1934. The PRR's Nellie Bly provided direct service from New York until 1961.^[5] The Central Railroad of New Jersey used Union Station for its famed Blue Comet train which ran until 1941. The tracks and platforms of the station can be seen in home movie footage taken in June 1937. Locomotives and cars from manufacturers throughout the US were on display during a week-long trade show for rail executives. Union Station accommodated this extra activity all while normal summertime passenger traffic went in and out.^[6]

The Shore Fast Line of Monopoly board fame, an interurban rail line between Ocean City and Atlantic City, also used Union Station until it shut down in 1948.^[3] The last PRSL public timetable to list Union Station as its destination was published in October 1964.^[7]

As construction of the Expressway approached the city in 1964, a new PRSL station was built at 2100 Bacharach Boulevard. Passengers that had previously arrived at the spacious, airy Union Station on a busy street now encountered a modest one-story building located in what was then an industrial pocket between the electrical generating station and a gas tank farm.^[8] The April 1965 the PRSL timetable has this station as its Atlantic City destination.^[9] All train service to Atlantic City used the 1964 station until New Jersey Transit and Conrail, the eventual successor to the PRSL, eliminated service in 1981. (The 1964 station appears briefly in the 1972 film The King of Marvin Gardens.) Rail service would not be restored until 1989 when Amtrak began service to the new Atlantic City Rail Terminal.

According to the Historic American Buildings Survey there were little or no changes made to the building until 1965. In late 1964 construction of the Atlantic City Expressway severed the rail connection to Union Station. The Ballinger Company of Philadelphia was commissioned to convert the building to a bus terminal. The platforms were modified to accommodate buses and a new metal sign reading "ATLANTIC CITY MUNICIPAL BUS TERMINAL" covered over "PENNSYLVANIA READING SEASHORE LINES". Some windows were covered over with asbestos board, waiting room benches were removed, and the ticket counter replaced along with changes made to the entrances. Buses which had been using the old Shore Fast Line terminal since 1948 were now relocated to the new Municipal Bus Terminal.^[3]
In the 1990s a comprehensive renovation of the terminal was begun^[10] but halted midway when the decision was made to demolish the building as part of the Atlantic City Gateway Corridor Roadway Improvements.^[3] Bus services were relocated to a new Atlantic City Bus Terminal and the building was demolished in 1997.

Before its closure and demolition the buildings' architecture was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey.^[3] It was added to the New Jersey Register of Historic Places in 1994.^[11]