Pottstown, PA: Bethlehem/McClintic & Marshall, Fabricator and Reading & Pennsy Depots

Mill: (Satellite)

Reading Depot: (Satellite)

Pennsy Depot: (Satellite, Industrial Highway was built on the Pennsy RoW.)

Ted W. Makropoulos posted
McClintic & Marshall Co. Pottstown works later became part of Bethlehem Steel's Fab division. Parts & sections of many well known bridges and other world famous projects were fabricated and assembled right here. It's demise, a long with the rest of Beth Steel's Fab department came shortly after the devastating blow of losing the bid to the World Trade Center/ Twin Towers.
From what I was told by someone who worked there along with his father and later read about, nearly a thousand workers showed up for their shift one morning only to find the gates padlocked with security turning them away. It sat exactly like that as if it was frozen in time til the remaining inventory and equipment was sold off, then sat untouched again until the property was sold a long while later. Either his great grandfather or grandfather was one of the first handful of workers hired by the original owners, each generation put in nearly 45 years there. He put in 28 til the lock out.
Jon Hart: That looks like a floor girder for the George Washington Bridge.
James Torgeson: Served by both the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Reading Company!

Kevin Levine commented on Ted's post
This was inside one of the buildings I delivered to awhile back.

1956 Pottstown Quad @ 24,000

Reading Depot

Gerry Meyle Sr. posted two photos with the comment: "96 years ago today. Reading Company Station at Pottstown, Pa. August 29, 1929. Almost finished in this picture. Note George Fabers Plumbing & Heating Contractor truck."

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Street View, Aug 2018

It is interesting to see codeline poles still standing in 2021.

Rob Rodriguez, Sep 2021

This must be a predecessor depot.

Dante Medori (Dantelevator), Jan 2019

Pennsy Depot

Dante Medori (Dantelevator), Jan 2019

Gregory D. Pawelski posted two photos with the comment: "Pennsylvania Railroad Schuylkill Branch Pottstown, Pa. Station at South Hanover Street. - Then and Now."

George Law: These photos don't align with each other. Bottom photo is where the Smith's Pie plant was located.

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It looks like the Pennsy depot was in the northeast quadrant of Hanover Street and the tracks. The slight angle of the crossing is consistent with the postcard.

1906/06 Phoenixville Quad @ 62,500

I got an aerial photo to confirm that location.

Apr 23, 1951 @ 24,000; AR1OY0000010127