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(rshsdepot) Edgewood, PA
Edgewood train station to be renovated
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/pittsburgh/s_196007.html
By Daniel Reynolds
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Thursday, May 27, 2004
The Port Authority of Allegheny County has found the money to renovate a historically significant Edgewood train station designed by noted American architect Frank Furness.
After years of trying, the Port Authority this month landed a $350,000 PennDOT grant to renovate the station, fix up a pedestrian tunnel next to the station that runs underneath the Martin Luther King Jr. East Busway extension, and open a pedestrian tunnel in Wilkinsburg that will connect to the busway's Hamnett Street station in Wilkinsburg.
Built in 1903, the station was declared a landmark by the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation in 1998, but has deteriorated in recent years. The last Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train stopped at the station on Nov. 27, 1964.
Now Port Authority buses on the extended east busway are the only thing that carry passengers past the old station.
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The Railroad Station Historical Society maintains a database of existing
railroad structures at: http://www.rrshs.org