| This is the legendary, and regrettably notorious, Praha Hlavni Nadrazi, or Prague main station. Built around the same time as New York's Grand Central Terminal and number of other iconic rail stations worldwide, it was renamed Wilsonova Nadrazi after World War I when U.S. President Woodrow Wilson was instrumental in orchestrating Czech independence from the Austrian Empire, then lost this name when the Nazis took over in 1938, not getting it back post-war due to Communism, and still being known as Hlavni Nadrazi today. It was one of the first stations to be built primarily for electric trains, like Grand Central. The date on this photo is a wild guess, but it would have been sometime in late 2005. |