Re: (rshsdepot) Harrisburg, PA Train Shed

["James Kelling" <james.kelling_@_nara.gov>]

The current Amtrak (former PRR) station in Harrisburg opened about 1907,
replacing the one pictured in Rau's book.  I think the Reading station
was demolished about 1961, replaced by a new post office.  Not sure when
Reading service to Harrisburg ended.  

Milwaukee's Amtrak station has a flat roof trainshed, built in 1965 by
the Milwaukee Road.  I can't think of any others left in the US. 
Seattle?

J. Kelling, PRRTHS and RSHS

>>> jdent1_@_optonline.net 1/16/2007 2:14 PM >>>
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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