[PRCo] Re: 44-KNOXVILLE

[Boris Cefer]

So, the 44-KNOXVILLE cars ended to serve the PRR station after 1967 East
lines abandonment because of Penn Ave track removal?
Thanks for interesting links. (And that way also links to other photos)

Boris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Rathke" <bobrathke at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 4:30 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: 44-KNOXVILLE


> The PRR station in Pittsburgh was never closed.  I was in the main waiting
> room in July, 1976 when Amtrak sold tickets there, and the station still
had
> six of its 15 tracks. By 1982 that waiting room was closed and a ticket
> office/waiting room was located in temporary trailers out in the track
area;
> the train concourse structure was still there, as were some of the
entrance
> doors to the tracks; the main waiting room was closed, so you had to
access
> the concourse via the pedestrian walkways on either side of the station
> building.  In 1988  the station building was converted to apartments (The
> Pennsylvanian) and Amtrak built a new ticket office at ground level on
> Liberty Avenue; only three tracks are in use today.
>
> Fortunately, the taxi rotunda was saved.  See photo at
> www.rr-fallenflags.org/prr/prr-pitt-sta-6r.jpg  taken on 8/3/88.  Four PRR
> city names are carved in the rotunda - the "Pittsburg" stone is visible in
> the photo. And the PAT waiting shelter on the East Busway/LRV spur line to
> the station can be seen in the background.
>
> For a photo - also taken on 8/3/88 - of the main waiting room being
> renovated for use as a banquest facility, see
> www.rr-fallenflags.org/prr/prr-pit-sta-ra.jpg
>
> Bob 12/287/03
>
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