Hello All
Today while in a high rise building in Philadelphia I noticed a picture of a station being worked on. There are several electrified MP54’s parked there as well. I took the pics of the picture with my cell phone. All 4 pics are of the same picture.
Does anyone know what station it is? I’m assuming it would be down town, maybe the old broad street station?
Probably Broad Street Station after the fire burned up the train shed.
Could it be Reading Terminal? Kind of looks like the photos at the following link: http://fp.users.fast.net/jprock/RDGterm.htm
You might be right. Here’s a pic of the reading terminal from 1893.
What’s strainge abou this pic is the caption says reading terminal 1893. But under the picture itself it says train shead at Broad Street terminal.
Edit. I found another site with this same pic that identified it as the reading terminal.
The captions on the photos show the head house of the Terminal and the shed of Broad Street, in an article about the Terminal. Not very good editing. The photo you started the conversation with couldn’t be the Terminal as the coaches are definitely not the H&H MUs the RDG ran. Yes, looking at my books on the Terminal and Electric Trains to Reading Terminal show steel work that looks similar. But our Pennsy friends would say that they were copied all the time, you know "Standard Railroad…
The OP’s pic shows PRR’ Broad St. Station, not Reading Terminal. Notice the difference in the framewok at the ends of the sheds, and the curve at the top of Broad St. as opposed to the angled peak of Reading.
The Reading shed still stands as part of the Philly convention center.
Except the Reading didn’t own MU cars with clerestories.
No question it is Broad Street after the fire. The MP54s were trapped as was a K4. The shell was too weak to survive and was torn down. By the way that was the largest unsupported shed ever built