Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Station
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Line(s) | Pittsburgh Subdivision | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Location | Smithfield St. at Carson St., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°26′1″N 80°0′14″W / 40.43361°N 80.00389°WCoordinates: 40°26′1″N 80°0′14″W / 40.43361°N 80.00389°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Area | less than one acre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Built | 1898 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Architect | Burns, William George | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Architectural style | Classical Revival, Edwardian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NRHP reference No. | 74001743[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Added to NRHP | January 11, 1974 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Designated CPHS | March 15, 1974[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Designated PHLF | 1970[3] |
The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Station, now Landry's, Inc.'s the Grand Concourse restaurant in Station Square Plaza in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a building constructed in 1898. Into the 1960s, the station was the depot for the passenger rail operations of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad and the Pittsburgh depot from 1934 for the many trains of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from Baltimore, Washington, Chicago, Detroit, and St. Louis. In 1934, the B&O obtained trackage rights on the P&LE from New Castle Junction to McKeesport and, until the discontinuance of its passenger service, used the P&LE station to reduce the amount of heavy-curvature trackage required to reach the original B&O station on the opposite side of the Monongahela River.[4]
The Pittsburgh Station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[5]
Long distance passenger trains[]
Noteworthy named trains of the B&O included in 1956:[6]
- Ambassador (Detroit-Baltimore)
- Capitol Limited (Chicago-Washington)
- Cleveland Night Express (Cleveland-Baltimore)
- Columbian (Chicago-Washington)
- Shenandoah (Chicago-Jersey City)
- Washington - Chicago Express (Chicago-Washington)
- Washingtonian (Cleveland-Washington)
P&LE trains operating as New York Central trains:[7]
- Pittsburgh-Buffalo Express (Pittsburgh-Erie-Buffalo, with sleepers to Toronto and Albany, eastbound)/Buffalo-Pittsburgh Express (Buffalo-Erie-Pittsburgh with sleepers from Toronto and Albany, westbound)
- Pittsburgh-Detroit Express (Pittsburgh-Detroit, westbound only)
- Steel King (Cleveland-Pittsburgh, with sleepers to Washington via the B&O's Washingtonian)
Gallery[]
The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Station, c.1905
B&O's Diplomat at the P&LE Station c.1968
Inside the station concourse
Station Square area of the Monongahela River showing the back of P&LE Railroad Station 1951.
See also[]
- Grant Street Station
- Union Station (Pittsburgh)
- Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal
- Baltimore and Ohio Station (Pittsburgh)
References[]
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "Local Historic Designations". Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation. Retrieved 2011-08-11.
- ^ Historic Landmark Plaques 1968-2009 (PDF). Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation. 2010. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
- ^ Pittsburgh Station, website
- ^ name="station nom""Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Station" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. 1971. Retrieved January 23, 2014.
- ^ "Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Tables A, 13". Official Guide of the Railways. National Railway Publication Company. 89 (5). October 1956.
- ^ "New York Central Railroad, Tables 170, 171, 172". Official Guide of the Railways. National Railway Publication Company. 89 (5). October 1956.
External links[]
Media related to Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Station at Wikimedia Commons
- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. PA-1231, "Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Station, Smithfield & Carson Streets, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA", 2 photos, 2 data pages, 1 photo caption page
- Article from Engineering News (1914) [1]
- Article from Railway Age (1902) with floor plan [2]
- Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
- Former Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad stations
- Neoclassical architecture in Pennsylvania
- Railway stations in the United States opened in 1898
- Railway stations in Pittsburgh
- Former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad stations
- City of Pittsburgh historic designations
- Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks
- Historic American Buildings Survey in Pennsylvania
- National Register of Historic Places in Pittsburgh
- Former railway stations in Pennsylvania
- Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Registered Historic Place stubs
- Pennsylvania railway station stubs
- Pittsburgh building and structure stubs