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Turbotville train station collapses
Recently restored and it blew over? Some wind!
Sue the restorer!
ALL historic preservation is temporary. the Andromeda galaxy is set to crash into the Milky Way in two billion years.
ALL historic preservation is temporary. the Andromeda galaxy is set to crash into the Milky Way in two billion years.
Sue Mitt Romney and Barack Obama!
The National Weather service in NJ aleed for quarter sized hail and 60 MPH winds in some places.
Before it was a PRR station it was on the Susquehanna, Bloomsburg and Berwick rr which became part of the PRR. Fondly known as the "Sweet Bye and Bye"if I am not mistaken.
Too bad it is lost.
TRAINS’ Preservation Award
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TRAINS’ Preservation Award
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Certainly sounds to me like the contractor / builder / engineer on this project certainly “didn’t do their homework” and should be responsible for the failure. Now that the depot is a pile of rubble there is no sense in reconstructing what would really just be a NEW building, which at best could only look like the original and have no historic value. Was it not the PRR which issued the statement “When we build, let us think that we are building forever.”
Trains magazine doesn’t have more details or pictures of this important story?
The Pennsylvania gods are angry! First Kinzua Viaduct, now a station!
I saw the pictures of the aftermath of the storm. My impresion is that large wall sections looked intact and with proper handeling (a crane) it looked could be reassembled. But maybe the wall sections are to week to be handled like that.
Maybe the 25 mile journey the station made last year from Bloomsburg back to Turbotville was just more than it could take. It’s hard to assign too much responsibilty to the volunteers who handled that job.
Sixty or seventy MPH winds took down this building??? Something is wrong with this picture.
This page contains a picture of the station after it was restored:
http://www.turbotville.org/trainstation.shtm
This page contains a picture of the colapsed building:
http://wkok.info/2012/08/06/
Pretty amazing what mother nature can do.
A down draft, possibly? I used to live outside of Jonesboro and a down draft (same speed winds) took out several more modern buildings. Depending on what level of historic feel was kept, the ability to make the depot wind-proof would be suspect. See the what happened in Bartow County (Cartersville, Georgia). A tornado took out a historic church. http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-storms-historic-church-928411.html.