Fw: Fw: (rshsdepot) Largest arched shed query

["Paul S. Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

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From: PinardR_@_rferl.org <PinardR@rferl.org>
To: Paul S. Luchter <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>
Date: Saturday, June 15, 2002 6:35 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: (rshsdepot) Largest arched shed query



I really like Leipzig HBf. It's huge, and since the fall of the Commies, 
they've managed to revamp it into a sheikh shopping mall, while 
restoring its original architecture and beauty -- and keeping it as a 
train station.

I remember going to do a project in Leipzig just after the Wall came 
down. I still needed a visa, but getting one was a formality. I had a 
business meeting in a building on the main square of town. I was dressed 
to the nines and wearing sunglasses. I walked through a passage near the 
then very dingy HBf. and ran into a group of somewhat inebriated 
workmen. One said: "Oh, he must be from the Stasi." which were fighting 
words at the time. The situation seemed a bit tense. I ignored them but 
high-tailed it out of there.


 "Paul S. Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>
            06/15/2002 09:51 AM

                    
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- -----Original Message-----
From: JIMBEAR <ribear_@_cox.net>
To: rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net <rshsdepot@lists.railfan.net>
Date: Saturday, June 15, 2002 2:51 AM
Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) Largest arched shed query


>Pittsburgh, Jersey City and Chicago don't even come close for the 
largest
shed
>in the US.  The PRR's Broad Street Station in Philadelphia had a shed 
300
feet
>wide which was the widest single-span shed in the world. St.Louis Union
Station
>had a total span of 600 feet comprised of five smaller spans of  90, 
139,
142,
>139, & 90 feet, and South Station, Boston had a total span of 570 feet
comprised
>of only three spans of 171, 228, & 171.
>The Hauptbahnhof in Leipzig, Germany (1915) was the widest multi-span 
shed
in
>the world at 984 feet comprised of 8 smaller spans of 49, 147 x 6, & 49
>
>Sources:    The Railroad Station by Carroll L. V. Meeks
>                  Railroad Stations     by  Brian Solomon
>
>Jim.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Paul S. Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>
>To: "RSHSDepot" <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
>Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 1:56 AM
>Subject: (rshsdepot) Largest arched shed query
>
>
>> The Wabash Pittsburgh arched shed brings up some shed questions...
>>
>> What was the largest arched rail shed in the US in history, was it
>> Reading? The Jersey City Terminal? Something in Chicago?
>>
>> I think Reading was the largest extant until is closed to trains, 
ended
>> its reign as a shed...., but which was largest ever in US, in the
>> world,? Which today is the largest in US and the world, both still 
used
>> and/or still standing? How many are remaining in the US, still RR 
used
>> or just still standing? I know a lot still exist in Europe and
>> elsewhere....I am only talking about the huge arched ones..there is 
even
>> a new small one at Ostbahnhof on the S Bahn in Berlin
>>
>> 
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>> The Railroad Station Historical Society maintains a database of 
existing
>> railroad structures at: http://www.rrshs.org
>>
>
>
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>The Railroad Station Historical Society maintains a database of 
existing
>railroad structures at: http://www.rrshs.org
>





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