"Going to Camp McCoy Twice" (Post #3)

Union Station will be where Uncle Charlie gets on a train in Portland, Maine to enter the US Army.

                                      Union Station was a train station in Portland, Maine.

     The building was opened on June 25, 1888, serving trains of the Boston and Maine, the Maine Central and Portland and the Ogdensburg railroads. Designed by Boston architects Bradlee, Winslow and Witherell, it was inspired by the designs of a medieval French châteaux. It was a primarily granite building, with an 188 foot (57 m) clock tower.

     The Maine Central ended passenger rail service to the station in September 1960, and it closed on October 30 when the Boston and Maine moved its remaining trains out of the facility.  Sadly, on August 31, 1961, the building was demolished and a strip mall built on the property.

                A panoramic view of the interior of Union Station

                Four months before entering the US Army

    December 22, 1942

Time to get on the train.

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Returning to Camp McCoy 

after his July 1943 furlough.

  Charles coming down the homestead steps.            Charles and his mother, Nana

He will not return to his home and family until  

July 1945 and for good Oct. 14, 1945.