JimBoylan wrote:Almost of Club Acela (which used to be a Metropolitan Lounge) is simply the mezzanine hallway to connect the elevators that lift from the Lower Level platforms, to the hallways at the bottoms of the stairs to the Upper Level platforms. Some of those elevators do continue to the higher story office floors. The elevator dial in one of the photos is for a shaft with only 3 stops, Lower Level platform, "S" (main concourse level of the Station), and what is now the Club Acela level. If you go out the emergency exit at the rear or West end of Club Acela, you pass the Track 9-10 elevator and enter the Suburban Concourse, directly under the Upper Level platforms. This way, you wouldn't have to get off an elevator from a Lower Level platform at the Main Concourse level and walk up the ramp or stairs to the Suburban Concourse level.
When you say upper level platforms, I assume you mean what is now the SEPTA area, not under the main part of the station but rather west towards the Cira Centre?
Were those platforms somehow connected to the raised paltforms at Reading Terminal? As I understand it, PRR didnt run many of the commuter lines, but Reading did.
Which brings me to another question worthy of its own thread, about the Reading Seashore line, its old alignment and its current one.