Meadville, PA: Erie Backshops, Depot and Museum/Freight House

Backshops+Roundhouse: (Satellite, between the tracks and the river. All of the land has been repurposed.)

Depot: (Satellite, the land has been reused by a street.)

Freight House: (Satellite)

Tim Starr posted
The Erie Railroad shops in Meadville PA around 1970. (Library of Congress)
Dennis DeBruler: Three more photos: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=Photograph:%20pa0370&fi=number&op=PHRASE&va=exact&co%20=hh&st=gallery&sg%20=%20true

HAER PA,20-MEDVI,4D--5
5. October 1972. GENERAL VIEW LOOKING FROM THE WEST. - Erie Railway, Meadville Roundhouse, West side of U.S. 6/19 opposite West end of North Street, Meadville, Crawford County, PA

HAER PA,20-MEDVI,4D--4
4. October 1972. GENERAL VIEW LOOKING FROM THE SOUTH.

Roger Durfee posted
A set of three Erie Lackawanna GP35s get fuel at Meadville, Pa in June, 1976. Although already almost 3 months into Conrail, this former EL facility had nothing but EL power in it that day. The old Erie RR coal tower still stood back then, complete with it's "Erie" diamond cast in.
Tim Shanahan shared

Terry Martin: The Erie cast concrete diamond is at the railroad display just North of the old diesel shop along the parkway. It was saved when the old coal tipple was taken down.

1968 Meadville Quad @ 24,000

Tim Starr posted
Talk about a busy turntable! The Erie Railroad had one of the more colorful histories, with railroad barons, huge accidents, financial catastrophes, and design blunders that astound and amaze. Here is a prime example. Very few back shops would place so much responsibility on one turntable! This is Meadville, PA in 1922.

Howard James Holub: 41°38'28.89"N 80° 9'30.25"W original building that still exists.

Tim commented on his post
Attached Sanborn map. I combined 2 maps into 1 for the book I was writing. From 1922.

There are also HAER photos for some of the buildings: 1, 2 and 3.

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Depot

Raymond Storey posted
MEADVILLE PA ...THE ERIE
Jackson-Township historical preservation posted
Erie Railroad Station located in the city of Meadville, Crawford County in 1910.

 HAER PA,20-MEDVI,5--2
2. Photocopy taken by Jack E. Boucher, October 1972, from an original photograph belonging to Miss Bessie McCartney, Chief Clerk, Erie-Lackawanna Railroad, Meadville, PA. GENERAL VIEW OF MEADVILLE STATION, DEMOLISHED 7/72. - Erie Railway, Meadville Station, West side of McHenry Street at West end of Chestnut Street, Meadville, Crawford County, PA

Freight House

Neo Razz, Juhn 2022

It has been refurbished as a museum. As recently as 2015, it was a garden supply store.

Street View, Sep 2024

They call it a depot, but it was Erie's freight house. Their depot was a couple blocks north of here.

Street View, Sep 2024

The doors on the right should be 40' apart because the siding on which they parked a cut of boxcars would be there. It looks like the rest of the boxcar access doors got removed during its carreer as a garden supply store.

Street View, Nov 2022

Today, the route is owned by NS.

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