Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Station, Philadelphia

  • CSX Philadelphia Subdivision (former B & O Philadelphia Division )

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The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Passenger Station ( German: Baltimore and Ohio passenger station ), also known as 24th Street Station was a passenger and operating train station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He served the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ( B & O) as a central passenger station in the city and was in operation from 1886 to 1958.

Location and Transport

The station was located directly on the east bank of the Schuylkill southwest corner of 24th Street and Chestnut Street. He was thus one block south of Market Street, the main east -west axis of the city. He also was the B & O station - rival Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR ) across the river in sight of 30th Street.

The station was designed as a through station in the relation Baltimore Jersey City and was located at the Philadelphia Division of the B & O and CSX today's Philadelphia Subdivision. This track reached the city from the south-west, crossed the Schuylkill and ran along its east bank along the north. About a mile (1.6 km) north of the station they finally met on a railway line of the Reading Railroad, today CSX Trenton Subdivision, on whose tracks the trains further upside to Jersey City.

Reception building

The station building was located east of the railroad crossing and immediately south of Chestnut Street. The entrance was facing the road, so road and track side were at right angles to each other. Since the Chestnut Street led across a bridge over the tracks and the Schuylkill, the entrance was on the first floor. Over the two floors, a restaurant and several Wartesääle were distributed. On the south side originally joined yet a large platform area, which apparently still harbored some butt tracks towards the south. Furthermore, the reception building was surmounted by a clock tower on the north side, on which, in later years the illuminated letters "B & O " were placed on all four sides.

History

Until the 1870s into the B & O and the PRR had the mainline from Jersey City via Philadelphia to Washington, DC operated together. This was done by means of lease agreements with smaller public companies, where these routes were ultimately. Between Philadelphia and Baltimore, this was, for example, the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad (PW & B).

As a result of commercial disputes, the PRR finally acquired the majority of shares of PW & B and had a contract with the B & O and 1884 expire. This then moved their trains running on parallel rail lines. It was within the city limits of Philadelphia between the tracks of the Reading Company in the north and the Grays Ferry neighborhood in the south is still a gap. This was closed by the described new line along with station east of the Schuylkill. The first train finally drove on September 19, 1886.

After the Second World War, the people - distance traffic in the U.S. fell in the face of increasing competition from the car and the airplane increasingly falling behind. The B & O also had to fight with her rival PRR, in contrast to the B & O was able to offer both electrified and much more direct and faster connections. Finally, the B & O passenger traffic between Baltimore and Jersey City has been completely abandoned. The last train ran on April 26, 1958.

The station building was later canceled; today (2008) is a nondescript office building in its place. Two crossing tracks are today and be driven by the CSX freight traffic. The station is now largely disappeared from the public consciousness.

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  • Historic American Engineering Record: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Station, Twenty -fourth and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA. In: Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress), Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, DC 20540 United States (English)
  • Scott W. Dunlap: THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD TIMELINE (s, html) Archived from the original on 23 March 2005 Accessed on 17 August 2008..
  • Former railway station in the United States
  • National Historic Landmark (Pennsylvania)
  • Traffic (Philadelphia )
  • Building in Philadelphia
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