(rshsdepot) Harrisburg, PA Train Shed

[jdent1_@_optonline.net]

A question was posed on the R&LHS list that maybe someone here can answer...
 
6. Harrisburg train shed (s)
    Posted by: "RusCDavies_@_aol.com" RusCDavies@aol.com 
    Date: Mon Jan 15, 2007 8:05 am ((PST))

August Group, some questions about the train shed
 
Is it the only classic train shed in the US still serving passenger trains?  
Realize there are some Bush Train Sheds serving, Hoboken and Chicago's North  
Western, perhaps others. But I'm referring to a REAL train shed (is there a  
proper term for this multiple track type?)
 
There are some others surviving, but no trains. Nashville, Minneapolis  (Milw 
Rd), Montgomery, and St. Louis (a couple of tracks survive, but for  display)
 
More re. Harrisburg. There's a wonderful image, ca. 1887, in the book  
"Traveling the Pennsylvania Railroad, The Photographs of William H. Rau." In  this 
image it was a single shed. Today, and in all other images I've seen, it's  a 
double shed, i.e., two peaked sheds. Does anyone know when it was changed, or  
perhaps modified? Rau's image, with the station structure at the left, 
includes  multiple uncovered tracks with passenger cars on them to the right. Perhaps 
the  second shed was added later so there'd be more serviceable, under cover  
tracks?
 
Related question. When was Harrisburg's Reading depot razed, and when did  it 
last serve passenger trains? 
 
Thanks
 
Russ Davies

Jim Dent
Oakland, NJ
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