| 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. Shown here is the PRR's Passenger Station located at the intersection of 10th Avenue and 13th Street. The ground floor was the space for passengers, while the second floor was where PRR crews checked in and out before and after their runs. Both east- and westbound passenger trains stopped in Altoona to change both engine and train crews. During 1946, there were 72 regularly-scheduled passenger trains a day which stopped in Altoona ~ so that's at least 144 crew changes per day, plus hundreds of passengers! |