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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. Construction began that same year, and the station opened on January 29, 1893.
The Reading Railroad Company filed for bankruptcy in 1971, and ceased to function as a railroad business in 1976. The company continued to serve mainly as a real estate business, but paid little attention to managing and promoting the market, and pondered ways to get rid of the market so that it would be easier to sell the terminal building.
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.
The Pennsylvania Convention Center comprises four main halls or rooms, smaller meeting rooms and auditoriums, and the Grand Hall, which occupies much of the trainshed of the former Reading Railroad terminal. The rest of the train shed is occupied by meeting rooms and a hallway on the main floor, and the Grand Ballroom on the upper floor.
Bassetts Ice Cream, a 150-year-old family-run business, has spanned five generations and etched itself into Philadelphia's history as the premier ice cream shop.
Train depot in Hartsel, Colorado . A station building, also known as a head house, is the main building of a passenger railway station. It is typically used principally to provide services to passengers. [1] [2] [3] A station building is a component of a station, which can include tracks, platforms, an overpass or underpass, and a train shed.
Commonly called the Reading Railroad and logotyped as Reading Lines, the Reading Company was a railroad holding company for most of its existence, and a single railroad in its later years. It operated service as Reading Railway System and was a successor to the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company , founded in 1833.