PhilaThingsThatArentThere_BroadStStn2

Excerpt from PBS WHYY Special "Things That Aren't There Anymore." The show aired in the '90s and the excerpt I recorded from it included Public Transit and Broad Street Station. Broad St. Station existed on the site of Penn Center/Suburban Station. There also existed a great wall, aka, the "China Wall" from the station all the way to the river. Part 2 of 2. This is all I recorded from the special.

[@davehibbs9111]

I rode the last train that day! I'm 84 now!! Thank you so very much for posting this!!!

[@akduh01]

Dave Hibbs Wow! Thats incredible. Glad you’re still around to enjoy and appreciate the history contained within this video, and still remember that fateful day of the closure of the station

[@boogiemcsploogie]

"purge the city of its Victorian quaintness", boy some days I really wish I had a time machine

[@CrossOfBayonne]

The locomotives seen in these photos are PRR class K4 4-6-2s, There were over 400 built and two survive today one of which is being restored to run again on excursion trips.

[@CrossOfBayonne]

Btw it's no is 1361

[@kevinhoward9593]

i have an idea. if the station was a stub end and the trains had to back out - which seems dangerous mind you - why not just have a switcher pulling it back out down the line? simple solution to that problem. I like Suburban Station though (if you can ignore the riftraff).