Amtrak Prepares for Close-Up When the Oscars Go Live at L.A.’s Union Station
Photo Credit: L.A.s Union Station (pictured) will play host to the Oscars, bringing welcome attention to trains and the rail industry. Flickr / Paul Sullivan
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When jet-setting Hollywood chooses a train station, yes, a train station, for its biggest night of the year, you know the rail industry is having its 15 minutes in the limelight. Oscars buzz can be short-lived. Amtrak and its biggest fan at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue hope that isn't the case this year.
It's not every day that a sector of travel gets to share the stage — or be the stage, in this case — for Hollywood's biggest event of the year, let alone the oft-forgotten train industry. But that is exactly what is happening Sunday night as the Oscars ceremony is set to be telecast from Los Angeles' 82-year-old Union Station, Amtrak's sixth busiest station.
Union Station, and its stunning Moderne, Art Deco and Mission Revival architecture, was chosen for its spaciousness in this year of Covid-19, officials said. And while stars like Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, Viola Davis, and Gary Oldman will get lots of air time at the 93rd Academy Awards, the attention of Union Station being on camer
