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President Street Station in Baltimore, built between 1849 and 1850; a portion of the station is still standing and is home to the Baltimore Civil War Museum. A Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad freight shed, now a Sprouts Farmers Market, on Carpenter Street between Broad and 15th Streets in Philadelphia, named to the National Register of Historic Places on September 8, 2011 [2])
This is a route-map template for the St. Charles Streetcar Line, a United States heritage streetcar.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
Philadelphia's Baltimore and Ohio Railroad station – also known as the B & O station or Chestnut Street station [2] – was the main passenger station for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Designed by architect Frank Furness in 1886, [3] it stood at 24th Street and the Chestnut Street Bridge from 1888 to 1963. [4]
At the same time, the north-south leg of the Philadelphia City Railroad opened, running south along Broad Street from the Philadelphia and Columbia. The Northern Liberties and Penn Township Railroad opened in 1834, connecting the Philadelphia and Columbia to the Delaware River north of downtown, and later that year the Southwark Rail-Road ...
Savarin Restaurant at Baltimore Penn Station, c. 1930s The present Pennsylvania Station is the third railroad depot on its North Charles Street site. The first one was a wooden structure built by the Northern Central Railway, a subsidiary of the PRR, that began operating in 1873.
The first effort to build a railroad to Newtown was incorporated as the Bristol and Newtown railroad company in 1836. [1] [2] Among the commissioners appointed by the state legislature to build the railroad was Charles Lombaert who had completed the Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad which ran through Bristol, Pennsylvania in 1833.
The station opened as a stub-end terminal for Pennsylvania Railroad suburban commuter trains serving Center City Philadelphia, intended to replace the above-ground Broad Street Station in this function. PRR inter-city trains, on the other hand, would use 30th Street Station. The station's full name was originally Broad Street Suburban Station.
The station building, constructed in 1917 by the Pennsylvania Railroad, is a designated historic station.It replaced an earlier structure built in the 1860s. It is one of the few historic stations to retain a complex of similarly-designed buildings: the passenger depot on the inbound side, and on the outbound side a still-active post office, outbound waiting room (now unused), and baggage ...