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[REV 25-NOV-2014]
B&O Depot: 1959
Philadelphia, 1959. "West and north elevations, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Station, southwest corner, 24th and Chestnut Streets." 5x7 inch acetate negative by Cervin Robinson for the National Park Service's Historic American Buildings Survey. View full size.
Stuck In Time
If not for the cars, this photo looks as if it could have been taken in the 1910's.
No longer standing
After the B&O ceased passenger service at Philadelphia in 1958, the station suffered a catastrophic fire in 1962 and was demolished as a consequence in 1963.
The Disappearing Railroad Blues
This 1959 picture would have been taken from the edge of the Chestnut Street Bridge over the Schuylkill River. While the main intercity rail tracks are on the western side of that river, the B&O's own lines were on the eastern side. The need for the station arose from the B&O's extension of its own rails from Baltimore to Philly, and its obsolescence (in 1958) was caused by the end of the company's passenger service north of Baltimore.
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