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The B&O Station building was also home to the Philadelphia Model Railroad Club, which split into two separate clubs when the building was torn down. The first reopened as the Cherry Valley Model Railroad Club in Merchantville, New Jersey in 1962, [9] and the second as the East Penn Traction Club several years later. [10]
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Pages in category "Railway stations in the United States opened in 1943" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The original Broad Street Station in September 1885 The station in the 1920s. The original station was designed by Wilson Brothers & Company under authority of the old Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, established in 1836 from a merger of four smaller segment lines dating to 1831, running southwest to Baltimore and its President Street Station, which had just been purchased by ...
The first railroad in Philadelphia was the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad, opened in 1832 north to Germantown. At the end of 1833, the state-built Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad , part of the Main Line of Public Works , opened for travel to the west, built to avoid loss of travel through Pennsylvania due to projects such ...
Frankford Junction is a railroad junction, and former junction station, [3] located on the border between the Harrowgate neighborhood of Philadelphia and Frankford, Philadelphia. At the junction, the 4-track Northeast Corridor line from Trenton connects with the 2-track Atlantic City Line from Atlantic City in the northeastern portion of ...
Opened in 1881 at a cost of $4,272,268.53 ($135 million in 2023), [3] the station was expanded in the early 1890s by famed Philadelphia architect Frank Furness. For most of its existence it was, with City Hall, one of the crown jewels of Philadelphia's architecture, and until a 1923 fire, had the largest train shed in the world (a 91 m span).
52nd Street is a closed train station that was located at the intersection of North 52nd Street & Merion Avenue (just north of Lancaster Avenue ) in the West Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. [2] It was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) at the junction of its Main Line and its Schuylkill Branch.