[PRCo] Re: 1965 PAT fantrip

[Fred Schneider]

If this was already answered, sorry.

Freight tracks on Liberty Street were replaced by the elevated tracks on
Fort Duquesne Way.  Served the warehouse and LCL freight houses down in
the point.  This also included an interchange with the Pittsburgh and West
Virginia that came into the west side of their terminal.   The elevated
tracks west of the PPG facility near 6th came out first ... early 1950s as
part of the Gateway Center redevelopment.  I remember a box car sitting on
the el at PPG in the middle 1950s.



Joshua Dunfield wrote:

> 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.