[PRCo] Re: PRR Pittsburgh station

[robert netzlof]

--- Bob Rathke <bobrathke at comcast.net> wrote:
> In the late 1940's, the PRR demolished the old arch-roof train shed
> which
> covered all 15 tracks, and by the early 1950's they had started
> construction
> of new platforms.  In 1954 I saw a model of the planned
> improvements for the
> PRR station, and it included low roofs over all of the 15 tracks in
> the PRR
> station.

As I recall, the roofs over the platforms were built while the train
shed was still in place. Then the train shed was taken down. The
railroad built a couple towers which supported scaffolding The towers
sat on car trucks and used two of the tracks to run the towers along
as the shed was disassembled.

Operation of the station continued right through the demolition.
Since there was by then a subtantial roof over each platform, with
only a narrow slit between the eaves over the track, people on the
platforms would be pretty well shielded from falling crescent
wrenches and such.

=====
Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob



		
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