CCCC – Demo

The morning commute from Doylestown to Center City in 1983 required a particular kind of endurance. The train would carry passengers twenty-eight miles southeast along the former Reading Company’s main line, past the suburban stations of Montgomery County, through the industrial landscapes of North Philadelphia, before grinding to a halt at Reading Terminal. There, beneath […]

The 1963 Plan That Could Have Saved Penn Station

Buried on page 16C of the New York Sunday News from May 19, 1963—just months before Pennsylvania Station met its demise—sits an article with the headline: “Tunnel Under Park Ave. Urged to Link All Rail Lines.” The paper is yellowed now, the kind of artifact you’d find in a library’s microfilm collection if you knew […]