Ephrata, PA: Visitors Center/Reading Depot and Pennsy Caboose

Depot: (Satellite)

Caboose: (Satellite)

The parking lot replaced the tracks. 

Street View, Mar 2025

Street View, Apr 2025

Gregory D. Pawelski posted two photos with the comment: "Reading Company R&C Branch Ephrata Station in Ephrata, Pa. - Then and Now."

Gregory D. Pawelski: The line between Stevens and Lititz was abandoned in 1985 .Before the (extant) station was built in 1889, the railroad had a station in the barroom on the south side of Mount Vernon House Hotel (also known as the Martin Gross Hotel). Eventually the railroad took over the barroom for its sole use as a passenger station after concerns about passenger comfort amidst the drunken crowds at the bar in the evenings (there was also a smaller room used for the ticket and telegraph office). The hotel was built in 1854 and torn down in 1955 (Intelligencer Journal, 2-14-1955). It was on the east corner of Main and State Streets on the NW side of the tracks at GPS: 40.178845, -76.177057.

Ed Johnson shared

Jim Kelling shared with the comment: "Ephrata Pennsylvania (Reading Company station now a visitor center)."

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Todd Phillips, Jun 2025