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The Terminal, also known as the Pittsburgh Produce Terminal and formerly the Pennsylvania Fruit Auction & Sales Building, is a building located at 2100 Smallman Street in the Strip District neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Built in 1926, the Produce Terminal stretches 1,533 feet long over five blocks.
The market is actually two separate structures. The older Stone Market house was completed in 1863 and held the name "West Harrisburg Market House". [4] The Brick Market house was built between 1874 and 1878. From 1869, a wooden frame wing extension spanned from the Stone Building to the Capitol Street alley until its destruction in 1976-1977. [5]
Broad Street Station at Broad and Market streets in Philadelphia was the primary passenger terminal for the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) in the city from December 1881 until the 1950s. [1] Located directly west of Philadelphia City Hall, the site is now occupied by the northwest section of Dilworth Park and the office towers of Penn Center.
In 1889, the Philadelphia and Reading Railway decided to build a train depot, passenger station, and company headquarters on the corner of 12th and Market Streets. The move came eight years after the Pennsylvania Railroad opened its Broad Street Station several blocks away at 15th and Market Streets, and one year after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad opened its 24th Street Station at 24th and ...
The current line runs from 69th Street Terminal just west of Philadelphia, west and north to Norristown, splitting from the original main line at Villanova Junction. P&W's previous main line went west to a terminus just east of Sugartown Road in Strafford , then later, another 0.47 miles (0.76 km) further, on an extension providing transfer to ...
Troy Hill and Vinial Street Troy Hill 2000 Pennsylvania Railroad Fruit Auction & Sales Building: 1929 Office of Division Engineer (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania Railroad Company 2100 Smallman Street Strip District 2014 Pennsylvania Railroad Station 1903 Furness, Evans & Co. Swissvale and Maple Avenues Edgewood 1998 Pennsylvania Railroad Station: 1916
Market Street, originally known as High Street, is a major east–west highway and street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The street is signed as Pennsylvania Route 3 between 38th Street ( U.S. Route 13 ) and 15th Street ( PA 611 ).
Philadelphia's Broad Street Station was the original start of the line. It was replaced by Suburban Station , the headquarters for the Pennsylvania Railroad , in 1930. Current service patterns dictate that all passenger rail service on the line begins 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Suburban Station at 30th Street Station , Philadelphia's primary ...