Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Station
railway station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Station, now Landry's Grand Concourse restaurant in Station Square Plaza in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is an historic building that was erected in 1898. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
History
The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Station served as the depot for the passenger rail operations of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad and the Pittsburgh depot from 1934 into the 1960s. Many of the trains making stops here were trains of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which were making their way to Pittsburgh from Baltimore, Washington, Chicago, Detroit, and St. Louis.
In 1934, the B&O obtained trackage rights on the P&LE from New Castle Junction to McKeesport and, until the discontinuance of its passenger service, used the P&LE station to reduce the amount of heavy-curvature trackage required to reach the original B&O station on the opposite side of the Monongahela River.
The station closed in 1985 after the last commuter train to College Hill station was discontinued.
The Pittsburgh Station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
Long distance passenger trains
Noteworthy named trains of the B&O included in 1956:
Ambassador (Detroit–Baltimore)
Capitol Limited (Chicago–Washington)
Cleveland Night Express (Cleveland–Baltimore)
Columbian (Chicago–Washington)
Shenandoah (Chicago–Jersey City)
Washington–Chicago Express (Chicago–Washington)
Washingtonian (Cleveland–Washington)
P&LE trains operating as New York Central trains:
Pittsburgh–Buffalo Express (Pittsburgh–Erie–Buffalo, with sleepers to Toronto and Albany, eastbound)/Buffalo–Pittsburgh Express (Buffalo–Erie–Pittsburgh with sleepers from Toronto and Albany, westbound)
Pittsburgh–Detroit Express (Pittsburgh–Detroit, westbound only)
Steel King (Cleveland–Pittsburgh, with sleepers to Washington via the B&O's Washingtonian)
Gallery
See also
Grant Street Station
Union Station (Pittsburgh)
Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal
Baltimore and Ohio Station (Pittsburgh)
References
External links
Media related to Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Station at Wikimedia Commons
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No.
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