A hundred years have passed since the first train departed from New York’s Grand Central Terminal. While the city around it has certainly changed, the station’s impeccable integration of locomotive, subway, automobile, and pedestrian traffic — cloaked in a handsome neoclassical veil — has endowed the Beaux-Arts masterpiece with an enduring sense of modernity. While locals and tourists may gawk at its historicist grandeur, Grand Central was undoubtedly conceived as a temple of technology, an expression of the modern world’s fervent embrace of the industrial age and its most radical innovations.

The station was also a major site of architectural experimentation, where architects and engineers attempted to negotiate an apposite style for an essential new building typology. Here, traditional ornamentation met the uncultured bare iron of modern engineering, joining to create a monumental architectural statement that truly captured the spirit of the era. Grand Central Terminal is but one outstanding result of a sweeping effort to envision and build the modern world. We’ve gathered a list of 10 more railway stations that have stood for over a century and continue to serve and inspire us.

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