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Pertaining to all railroading subjects, past and present, in Pennsylvania

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  by fp7fan
 
When was the PRR passenger station in Reading next to the Penn St. Bridge demolished? Thanks in advance.
  by AlexC
 
It may have made it to 1972 and Hurricane Agnes.

See some pictures here.... it may be in the top left in one of the photos.
https://berksnostalgia.com/hurricane-ag ... eading-pa/

I suspect having been flooded, it was then demolished.
  by pumpers
 
Going to the link given above and then clicking on the You-tube link, in the video at time 6:30 - 6:40 there are a couple of people wearing facemasks. What was that all about?. Sort of looks like modern COVID times. They look like teen-agers or slightly older, roughly.
JS
Last edited by pumpers on Sat Jul 16, 2022 12:27 pm, edited 1 time in total.
  by pumpers
 
Here is a 1913 map that shows the station had 2 buildings, (numbered 1 and 3 on the map). http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/ ... nsylvania/
PSV stands for Pennsylvania Schuylkill Valley I think, a PRR subsidiary.
Then if you go to https://www.historicaerials.com/viewer you can pretty much make out the 2 buildings in the 1946 and 1951 aerial photos. But then maybe in 1958 and certainly 1968, it looks like building "3" of the 1913 map is gone and replaced by a parking lot.
Building 1 is still seems to be there in 1981 (9 years after Agnes) although perhaps abandoned, and it's gone by 1992.
JS

When did passenger service on the PRR in Reading end?