[PRCo] Re: 1965 PAT fantrip

[Joshua Dunfield]

Harold Geissenheimer wrote:

> Trolleys on Penn southbound (one way then), on Liberty two way and
> on on 9th, 7th and 6th.  No trolleys on 10th.  Freight trains once
> ran on Liberty
> There was a PRR elevated structure for freight on the Blvd.

Freight trains on Liberty?  How far did the tracks go?

Actually, I'm very curious about how the whole Penn Station area was
laid out.  A few weeks ago I was riding Amtrak from Philly to Pgh.
Those trains usually arrive Pgh on the left-hand (southernmost)
through track, but NS was doing an insane amount of track work -- I
lost count of how many MoW vehicles we passed -- and we got shoved off
to one of the right-hand tracks.  Whatever platform used to be out
there had long since decayed into oblivion, so I got to jump down and
over the rutted dirt... Anyway, from there I noticed a couple of
"MOVING STAIRS" signs for long-vanished escalators that couldn't
possibly connect to anything now.  

Obviously, the building must have been very different back when it was
all a train station instead of apartments with a tiny station in the
basement.  Anyone remember how it worked?  If the "MOVING STAIRS"
signs are where they always were, it seems like there must be
(now blocked off) corridors underneath the platforms.

Any information about the track layout (particularly before the busway
and subway were built) would be interesting as well.

-j.