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 #1600596  by fp7fan
 
When was the PRR passenger station in Reading next to the Penn St. Bridge demolished? Thanks in advance.
 #1601110  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.
 #1602437  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.
 #1602440  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?