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New Terminal Depot at Philadelphia, Reading Railroad System lithograph, circa 1891. The headhouse was designed in 1891 by Francis H. Kimball, and the train shed by Wilson Brothers & Company.
The site was chosen for the convention center, and in 1990 the Company transferred title to the complex to the Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority. Presently, the Market still occupies the ground floor and basement levels of the Reading Terminal's former train shed which is now part of the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Vendor stalls ...
The Reading Terminal in Philadelphia, showing a nine-story brick head house to the right and arched train shed (with market below) to the left. A head house or headhouse may be an enclosed building attached to an open-sided shed, including the piers extending into a waterway, or the aboveground part of a subway station.
Among their surviving major works are the Pennsylvania Railroad, Connecting Railway Bridge over the Schuylkill River (1866–67), the main building of Drexel University (1888–91), and the train shed of Reading Terminal (1891–93), all located in Philadelphia.
Bassetts was the first business to sign a lease in Philadelphia's famous Reading Terminal Market, and today, the ice cream stand is the only remaining original tenant.
The terminal opened in 1893 and served to enhance the railroad company's power and prominence, and contributed to the city's importance. When Reading Company ceased to exist as a railroad owner and operator, it sold the headhouse and train shed to SEPTA, the regional transit service.
Its steel train shed, with 32 parallel tracks (later increased to 42), was the largest of its kind when the station opened. ... station from Amtrak in 1978 and began restoration work with the aim ...
Since then, Hoboken Terminal has served as the main commuter rail station for Jersey City, and straddles the Jersey City/Hoboken line. The timetable of 27 September 1936 shows 132 weekday departures, including 25 to CNJ's Broad St. Newark station, 25 that ran south from Elizabethport, two to Chrome and the rest to the NY&LB, and 19 Reading and ...