New York's Penn station – and other ugly train terminals around the world

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2. You should look at the station in Pittsburgh

The actual station build in the early 1900s still stands, but when Conrail abondoned it in the 1990s, it was converted to condonmoeuns AND the station moved outside and to the rear.

The old station still stands, but NOT as Amtrack's station:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Station_(Pittsburgh)



Off to the side and to the reat, passengers can NOT even use the above, the entrance to the new station is BELOW this grade:



AMTRAK uses the same tracks as the old station, but you enter it from below and to the side of the old station, the tracks are to the rear of the old station.

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In this photo you see the cars below the rotundra, the new station is on the level of the car NOT the rotundra:


http://www.greatamericanstations.com/Stations/PGH/Station_view

Inside the present station:

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