[PRCo] Re: PRR Pittsburgh station

[Bob Rathke]

I believe that the present track numbers used by Amtrak are the same numbers
used by the PRR when all 15 tracks were in use.  About nine of the tracks
were still active in 1976 - see photo of the American Freedom train that I
took there on July 9, 1976.  Note that tracks to the left (south) have been
removed.  www.rr-fallenflags.org/aft/aft-pit-ar.jpg

For a more active day at the station, see photo I took on 4/26/64, looking
west -
www.rr-fallenflags.org/prr/prr-pitts-sta-c.jpg

To those who requested URL's for other  photos I took of the station, I'll
send them to you off-list.

Bob 7/20/04

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua Dunfield" <Joshua_Dunfield at mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 2:20 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: PRR Pittsburgh station


>
> Bob Rathke wrote:
> ...
> > By 1956, the tracks on the north side of the station (Pittsburgh to
> > Cleveland and Chicago) and at least two of the eastbound  tracks to
> > Philadelpia and New York - were reached via an undeground waiting room
(at
> > the level of Libery Avenue).  This was done to eliminate the need for
> > passengers to cross the tracks in order to reach their trains.
Escalators
> > ran from the concourse to the underground wiating room, and then up -
> > through several escalators - to the platforms for tracks 1-6.
>
> Thanks; just what I was looking for.  Is the present track numbering the
> same as in 1956 (for the tracks that still exist)?
>
> Also, in the Pitt collection (referred to by John Swindler) the 1923 map
> shows a tunnel east of the train shed (between 13th and 14th if you were
> to extend them past Liberty):
>
>
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/maps/showmap.pl?client=maps&image=23
v0105b&levels=5&originx=0&originy=4520&lastlevel=2&fullheight=6864&fullwidth
=5430&level=2&size=2&image.x=14&image.y=474
>
> (It's on Plate 5b if the long URL doesn't work.)
>
> Is the tunnel still there?
>
> (On topic!)  There appears to be a trolley spur going off Liberty
> right up alongside a PRR spur, next to stairs leading up into the
> station:
>
>
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/maps/showmap.pl?client=maps&image=23
v0105a&levels=5&originx=1584&originy=4848&lastlevel=2&fullheight=6864&fullwi
dth=5430&level=2&size=1&image.x=784&image.y=367
>
> (1923, Plate 5a.)
>
> ...
> > I took numerous photos in the PRR station from 1954-1991, and I will be
> > happy to give the website addresses to anyone who is interested.
> >
> > Bob 7/17/04
>
> I would certainly be interested.
>
> -j.
RR