1955 B&O Grant Street Commuter Station: (Satellite)
B&O Freight Houses: (Satellite)
Pennsy Depot
Pennsy also had a depot on the north side of the Allegheny River across the Fort Wayne Bridge.
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| Frank Jacobs III posted Pittsburgh Station, 1912. |
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| Jackson-Township historical preservation posted The Pennsylvania Railroad's Station in Pittsburgh featured tracks from three directions. At the right were the tracks that led to Saint Louis; in the upper left-hand corner of the photo, you can see the tracks that led to Chicago; within the body of the Station itself was where the two branches merged, and headed eastward toward Philadelphia and New York City. I took the color photo around 1960; the tracks to Saint Louis are at the right. (Photo from Thoams C. Ayers) James Fennell shared |
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| Daniel Steiman commented on the above post |
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| Tom Breiding commented on the above post Took this last Saturday [Nov 2, 2024] |
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| Rob Keith commented on James' share A beautiful building. |
Dick Whitcomb posted three photos with the comment:
Pennsylvania Railroad Station (Union Station) (2016)Built 1903— at Union Station (Pittsburgh).
Steve Hoffman: So beautiful. A few years ago I stayed in Pittsburgh and went to a wonderful restaurant that was built inside the stadium. I hope that restaurant is still there. Not only was it beautiful but the food was delicious.
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Michael Campbell posted three photos with the comment: "Penn station Pittsburgh pa."
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| Antonia Medina posted Random Thursday post. At Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1956, a Pennsylvania Railroad SW1 switches cars on the "Panhandle" side of the station as passenger trains pass on the "Fort Wayne" bridge over the Allegheny River in the distance. The name refers to PRR predecessors Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway and Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway, respectful. Philip R. Hastings photo. |
Dave Kuntz posted four photos with the comment: "Pittsburgh's PRR Penn/Union Station. Once a national transportation hub that was visited by the finest streamliners, it has been transformed into the "Pennsylvanian" luxury housing where passengers and railfans are no longer welcome, and the Amtrak waiting area has been relegated to a grimy wing added below track level. Also the number of tracks that go through the station has been reduced from 5 to 2, but who can complain when this fine station and concourse has been given new life, even if it's completely apart from the railroad?"
Glen Brown shared
Steve Parker: The architect is rarely mentioned. In this case, it was one of America’s greatest, Daniel Burnham from Chicago.
Patrick Le Floch: The top photo is telling. For over 50 years, we favored building expressways and parking lots without realizing they'd drown cities in concrete. The cost to maintain these blights is high and that's why many are calling on removing them altogether https://www.cnu.org/.../eight-completed-highway-removals...
Patrick Le Floch: http://thepennsylvanian.com/ Here's the website for the condo. It's nice!
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| Brandon Peck commented on Dave's post Original set up |
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| Lens of Discovery Past posted [The description is omitted because it describes the New York station, and I don't want to propagate AI nonsense.] John L Garcia shared Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania NOT New York City. |
B&O Intercity Depot
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| Jackson-Township historical preservation posted The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Depot at the foot of Smithfield Street before the automobile era, when buses from the hotels, all horse-drawn, met all trains. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Station, completed in 1887, was designed by Philadelphia-based Frank Furness. The station was demolished in the 1950's to make way for construction of the Parkway East. A new, small passenger station was built in 1955 at the foot of Grant Street. (Photo from http://images.library.pitt.edu/) |
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| Jackson-Township historical preservation posted B & O (Baltimore & Ohio) Railroad Passenger Station located at the foot of Smithfield Street in Pittsburgh around 1915-16. (Photo from Katherine Harrup Kurash) David Demsey shared |
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| Jackson-Township historical preservation posted Trains stopping at the B & O (Baltimore & Ohio) Railroad Station on Grant Street in Pittsburgh around 1959. The building was torn down & replaced with the Pittsburgh National Bank's (PNC) operations center. (Photo from https://www.facebook.com/WQEDPittsburgh) William Magyar: The Pat train Fred Leif: William Magyar PatTrain doesn't come into existence until late 1970's. B&O operated the commuter in era of picture up until Port Authority took over. (See silver Budd Rail car deep on track second to left-that was the commuter train. With all the people milling around, my guess is this is a special train going to some event. No long distance trains used this station during daylight hours. P&LE station across river hosted most B&O long distance trains Mark Swanson: Classic B&O ALCo FA-2 & sister units on point . Mike Charles: Liberty Bridge before it was yellow. Jeffrey Linton shared Charles Rakiecz: The train is not so much "stopped" as waiting to leave. It is sitting on one of the stub-end tracks at the station, which is not a "through-type" station. All of the tracks ended right there. Otherwise, great photo. James Churchill: I had a chance to pass through that beautiful Art Deco B&O station once. Shortly before the Versailles -McKeesport-Pittsburgh weekday RDC commuter ceased running, I took a couple vacation days, drive to McKeesport, rode into Pittsburgh and drove back. (This was one of the few trains not destroyed by other interests but by destroying the jobs that were the ridership!) Jackson-Township historical preservation posted again |
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| BroolkineConnection "For decades the B&O Railroad used the tracks of the P&LE Railroad for through trains in Western Pennsylvania." The trains stopped in Pittsburgh at the P&LE Station, which was across the Smithfield Bridge from the B&O Station. |
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| Stan Carlson posted Pacific 5142, ex BR&P Pacific 602 is departing Smithfield St station in Pittsburgh for points north in the late 1940’s. Herb Harwood took the Smithfield St photo. |
The B&O depot is on the other side of the river to the right of the Smithfield Bridge.
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| 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻: 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗻𝘀𝘆𝗹𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗮 and Ohio posted |
1955 B&O Grant Street Commuter Station
Jackson-Township historical preservation posted an incorrect photo with the comment:
Grant Street Station in 1955 just prior to demolition for the construction of the Parkway East. Grant Street Station, also known as the B & O (Baltimore & Ohio) Pittsburgh Terminal, was a passenger rail station on Grant Street in Downtown Pittsburgh. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad announced plans for it on May 3, 1955, after selling the original B & O Station bordering the Monongahela River to the State for construction of Interstate 376. It opened in 1957 to serve commuter rail traffic; all intercity traffic continued to use the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad's (P&LE) Station (now called Station Square). Grant Street was the last such privately owned train station built in Pennsylvania.
After the Port Authority of Allegheny County (PAT) assumed control of the B&O's Pittsburgh—McKeesport—Versailles commuter route in 1975 (which it re-branded PATrain), Grant Street continued to serve as the Pittsburgh depot for this service. PAT discontinued the service in 1989; Grant Street itself was demolished in 1998. The site is now home to PNC Firstside Complex and the First Avenue Light Rail Station.
Charles Rakiecz: The picture is of the B&O's Smithfield Street Station at the north end of the Smithfield Street Bridge. This station was torn down in the mid 1950's to make way for the Parkway East lanes in the often flooded "Bathtub" section beside the Mon Warf parking lot. The B&O replaced this station with a modern on at the foot of Grant Street which was eventually torn down for the new jail complex.
William Magyar: Sad to see it go. I happened to have been a daily commuter on the Pat train and used the train station. Tore it down to build the Allegheny county jail.
[It was a couple of blocks east of Grant Street.]
David Demsey shared
B&O Freight Houses
Eric Hansmann posted three images with the comment: "The recent posts of the original B&O Pittsburgh passenger station are great, but overshadow the much larger freight facilities located just south of the train shed. Here are a couple of photos and a diagram of those facilities. The inbound freight house was quite large. That's the Pennsy's Panhandle Bridge crossing the Monongahela River in the background of the inbound freight house."
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