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| Metrotrails posted Historic 1918 National Archives image of the Pennsylvania Railroad station in Gap, Pennsylvania. The station, constructed in 1884, endured for many years before its recent demolition due to its deteriorated condition. Situated on the westbound side along Pequea Avenue, the freight station was located nearby. |
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| Metrotrails posted Historic view of the Pennsylvania Railroad freight station in Gap Pennsylvania, from the Dan West collection. The station stood on the westbound (north side) beside Pequea Avenue. Some sources say it was built in 1884, and some say it dates to the 1850s. Sadly, it was demolished in 2011 after some time being used for storage. |
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| Metrotrails posted Historic view of the Pennsylvania Railroad freight station in Gap Pennsylvania, from the Dan West collection. The station stood on the westbound (north side) beside Pequea Avenue, at the bend, until demolition in 2011. |
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| Metrotrails posted Historic 1930s Pennsylvania Railroad image by Robert Dudley Moore, from the John D Denney Jr collection, showing an eastbound locomotive on the main line in Gap, Pennsylvania. This was a very difficult area for the construction of the railroad, originally the Philadelphia and Columbia in 1834. They encountered deep mud and had issues so bad that they had to fill some of the cut. They built back in, and used stone to create stable ground. The original P&C took the turn at Gap wider than the PRR realignment. By the early 1900s, the cut was able to be what deepened and improved. The bridge from which the historic photo was taken no longer exists. The one seen in the image is present day Strasbourg Road. We know this because a portion of the historic 1872 clock tower can be seen to the right, which was moved a little further up the hill when the highway was enlarged in 1953. |
Normally, street view would have multiple dates for a metro area going back to 2008. But this street has just this view. The depot was up on the flat spot.
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| Street View, Apr 2025 |
I was surprised by how bad some of the images look. I think this is the best image.
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| Google Earth, Apr 2005 |
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| Metrotrails posted This building, home to Principal Financial, does a rather good job of emulating the look of the historic Pennsylvania Railroad Station in Gap Pennsylvania. It does sit parallel with the tracks, so it's a bit confusing to those who don't know the area! Metrotrails shared Not the depot, but this building was built to look like it, around the time the nearby depot was destroyed, so that's cool... Gap, Pennsylvania |
This building appears in a 2008 Street View and Google Earth image, but it does not appear in a 2005 Google Earth image.
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| Street View, Aug 2021 |
This topo map accurately marks the location of the depot.
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| 1955/56 Gap Quad @ 24,000 |
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