Pittsburgh, PA: Pennsy and B&O Stations

Pennsy: (Satellite)

B&O: (Satellite)

Pennsy

A Flickr album of the station

 

Frank Jacobs III posted
Pittsburgh Station, 1912.

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

Daniel Steiman commented on the above post

Tom Breiding commented on the above post
Took this last Saturday [Nov 2, 2024]

Rob Keith commented on James' share
A beautiful building.

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

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.

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B&O

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/)

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

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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