I was in a car museum in Branson today and read I thought a seldom if ever discussed reason for the naming of station wagons.

Basically, at the turn of last century when powered vehicles first began to appear, resorts and hotels needed a suitable impressive method to transports their arriving guests from the the train "station" to the hotel.

Being many powered vehicles at the time often had custom wood body work, those specially designed to haul passengers and luggage for the train passengers, were labeled "station wagons".

Sounds reasonable to me.