The Things We've Lost...

We've also lost the ability to build many of the locos that served that station. True....no one needs to build a T1 today....but couldn't if we wanted to.

I don't think a T1 ever got to Penn Station.

We can't even restore a GG1, and they did make it to PSNY.

Things like a simple cold water fountain to use when waiting for ANTRAK trains and New Jersey Transit. I was told they were removed because vendors could then sell bottled water. Fire everyone who manages AMTRAK.

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I don't think a T1 ever got to Penn Station.

My info says yes..... BUT ....soooooo not my point I was making.....

Give me bottle H2O. You don't know who had their moths on the public fountain!

Ahh yes, so many great structures have fallen.....very sad. Where I grew up I could see the Milwaukee Road pounding through with freight and the BN's great E units on the point of the scoots.....now all are gone....definetly a shame.

If there is a bright spot in the loss of Penn, it is the fact that this demoliton sparked the preservation movement that has saved many other notable structures, incl. GCT. The demolition of Penn Station showed that nothing was beyond the reach of the wrecking ball, and pretty much erased the notion that our great architectural monuments would simply always be there. We have continued to lose some, but many have been preserved thanks to the martyrdom of Penn Station. Cincinnati Union Terminal came within an eyelash of being destroyed, but was saved by concerned folks who learned in part from the Penn Station tragedy.

The station may be gone but you can see one of the eagles from the from facade at Skylands Manor Park, in Ringwood, New Jersey

In Portsmouth,Ohio the large passenger station which was the last new passenger station that the N&W built.
Also just around the curve between Waller and Hutchison Streets,a big building that was the last piece of Scioto Valley railroad history in southern Ohio.
Both structures were razed within the last 10 years

The demolition of the late, great Pennsylvania Railroad Station was nothing less than a "monumental act of vandalism" (New York Times quote).

The good thing about teh destruction of Penn Station is that it awakened people to their history and heritage and led to a preservation movement. That was one of the things that helped preserve Grand Central Station as well.

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Originally posted by Tinplate Art:
The demolition of the late, great Pennsylvania Railroad Station was nothing less than a "monumental act of vandalism" (New York Times quote).

Here's a link to a piece discussing the New York Pennsylvania Station eagles and their current status which was done by Railfan & Railroad in 2010:

http://www.trainsarefun.com/pr...prrstationeagles.htm

Bob

I never had the privilege of seeing Penn Station. But I do remember this grand old lady who's long gone - http://condrenrails.com/MRP/Me...is_Union_Station.htm

We could probably post here a whole gallery of once great stations that are now gone. I could only guess at what some of them would be.

..oh, for any Southern Ry fans, here's another that was a big deal in its day - http://condrenrails.com/MRP/Ot...mphis-Charleston.htm

Not just the stations.
Think about all the lines that were removed in the 1970s and '80s.
The sources of revenue.Steel mills,factories,chemical plants,coal mines etc.
Also smaller factories in smaller towns similar to much that we model.
The reason for their disappearance doesn't need to be considered,just that they are gone.

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Originally posted by German:
The station may be gone but you can see one of the eagles from the from facade at Skylands Manor Park, in Ringwood, New Jersey

A few more grace the ends of a road bridge leading to 30th St station in Philadelphia.

Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, among others, was influential in saving GCT.

Andrew Cassett's Roman Baths-inspired Pennylvania Station was a work of true architectural grandeur!