| Station. Here is an original photo that I took at the Pennsylvania Railroad's Passenger Station in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of 11 December 1965. On the left is the tiny patch of tattered tarmack provided for passengers to board trains. The "new" and functionally-ugly 12th Street Bridge is in the middle. The gray, two-story structure in the distance is the Railway Express Office. The large, red brick structure on the right was once part of what was known as the "Altoona Machine Shops" where generations of dedicated Pennsylvania Railroaders built everything from freight cars to engine tenders to steam locomotives, not to mention experimental electric and diesel engines! |