LWB Wrote:
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> Some cities ended up with a north
> station, south Station etc. With taxi or subway
> transfer between each. Examples include Paris,
> and London.

Then you had Seattle, where the two stations (King Street and "Union Station") were located across the street from each other.

The GN and NP used King Street, which is still used today by Amtrak and Sound Transit. Union Station, formerly used by the UP and the Milwaukee Road, has been completely renovated, and is the headquarters for Sound Transit as well as various offices. The old UP right-of-way is now the Metro Tunnel busway.

Through Oregon's Willamette Valley, the Southern Pacific and Oregon Electric maintained separate stations, although in Eugene was about one block apart. In Albany a trolley line connected the two stations. In Portland, the SP was able to block OE from accessing Union Station (even though the OE was controlled by the Spokane, Portland & Seattle, itself owned by the GN and NP, all three of which had rights into Union Station) and as such OE trains terminated at the "North Bank Depot" which was a converted freight house on 10th Avenue. But the SP&S, GN and NP trains all terminated at Union Station.