Name That Station!

[StanJazz]

No It's not Cut Bank.

 

[Shanghai]

Vancouver, WA

 

[StanJazz]

No it's not Vancouver. I will give a hint. When the railroad worker gets off work he puts on a cheesehead hat. That should narrow it down a lot.

 

[FriskyFL]

Portage, WI

 

[StanJazz]

Yes. I knew the cheesehead hint would narrow it down.

 

[FriskyFL]

Can anyone identify this station?

 

[RampWidget]

WPB?

 

[FriskyFL]

Yes, WPB is correct!

 

[RampWidget]

Ok, here is an inactiive station, on an active Amtrak route, and the specific name train in the photo is still active.

Edit: inattentive OP

 

[RampWidget]

Hint No.1 - That's the Broadway Limited Capitol Limited in the photo

Edit: my goofed up memory

 

[greatcats]

Gary, Indiana???

 

[railiner]

Hint No.1 - That's the Broadway Limited in the photo

Huh? With a Vista-Dome???

 

[Shanghai]

South Bend, IN?

 

[RampWidget]

Not Gary or South Bend.

Hint No. 2 - Both of your guesses are too far west.

 

[RampWidget]

Hint No.1 - That's the Broadway Limited in the photo

Huh? With a Vista-Dome???

I stand corrected. I incorrectly remembered the photo as being the Washington section of the Broadway, which it is not. That is actually the Capitol Limited in the photo. Railiner, thanks for catching the error.

 

[Shanghai]

Pittsburgh, PA?

 

[RampWidget]

No, not Pittsburgh.

Hint No. 3: The photo is not only of an inactive station building, it is also an inactive station stop.

 

[rrdude]

Ok, here is an inactiive station, on an active Amtrak route, and the specific name train in the photo is still active.

Edit: inattentive OP

Sooo, "looks like" Phase III paint scheme, which was around 1979. We know the train is the Cap, and we know it no longer stops at this station/town/platform. C'mon train nerds, we can DO THIS!

 

[rrdude]

Ok, here is an inactiive station, on an active Amtrak route, and the specific name train in the photo is still active.

Edit: inattentive OP

Sooo, "looks like" Phase III paint scheme, which was around 1979. We know the train is the Cap, and we know it no longer stops at this station/town/platform. C'mon train nerds, we can DO THIS!

"Active Route", meaning the Cap passes this by today? Or, "Active Route" meaning the train-name is still around, but goes via a different routing? Is it Lima, OH?

 

[Ryan]

Extensive checking of timetables.org says that the Cap stopped at McKeesport, Pennsylvania for a brief period of time...

 

[rrdude]

Extensive checking of timetables.org says that the Cap stopped at McKeesport, Pennsylvania for a brief period of time...

"Is that your final answer"?

 

[Ryan]

If I'm correct, "yes!"

 

[RampWidget]

And Ryan is correct - that is the Cap calling at the joint Amtrak / PATrain station at McKeesport, Pa. just north of Pittsburgh on the former P&LE (now CSXT) main line.

(Photo courtesy of R. L. Beck)

 

[railiner]

Good one.

A minor correction....McKeesport is about 16 miles Southeast of Pittsburgh, and I believe it is on the B&O.....

PATrains went from there into B&O's commuter station in downtown Pittsburgh. Former B&O Capitol Limited switched over to the P&LE line across the Monongahela to stop at the P&LE station before continuing west to Akron and Chicago. Amtrak's Capitol goes from there thru the Panther Hollow Tunnel over what is now the Allegheny Valley RR, to connect to the former PRR main to reach the Amtrak, former PRR station....

 

[Ryan]

Sweet, that took some digging!

Lemme go raid SubwayNut's site for another picture.