A steam locomotive is emerging from between the two towers of a Romanesque revival style railroad station. Men and women and a stage coach are on the road at the right. Trees are at the far right. A large house is behind a fence on a grassy bank in the left background.

Artist is unknown. The painting shows the first Union Station, erected in 1843. It is on the same site as the present (2014) building, erected in 1889.

Hartford Union Station is the main railway station as well as Bus Station in Hartford, Connecticut. It is located along what is now Amtrak's New Haven-Springfield Linewhich branches off from the Northeast Corridor in New Haven. The historic station building is near the State Capitol Building. It is a Richardsonian Romanesque building designed by George Keller and built in 1889