Why should the beautiful die?
Built in 1904, this well-preserved old train station in Indiana, Pennsylvania, is on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built by the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway, which later became part of the Baltimore and Ohio.
In 1991, Jet Lowe photographed the building for the Historic American Engineering Record. (The originals of these pictures are at the Library of Congress.)
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Connellsville has a lovely, restored station, though unfortunately, the town’s Amtrak stop (the only one in western PA not on the old Pennsy mainline) is only a small platform across the Yough.
Washington has two remaining stations. One is the offices of an investment advisory and orthodontist. The other is a warehouse for a concrete firm.
Latrobe has a lovely station that is still an active Amtrak stop.
Surely, though, the jewel of SWPA train stations (outside of Pittsburgh) must be Greensburg. Aside from being a Jacobian masterpiece, it is still an active Amtrak stop and contains a decent Italian restaurant and an excellent tea house.
Any blueprints of the train station for building model of it
A good place to start your search might be the Indiana County Tourist Bureau, which might be able to connect you with local historical societies or archives. The Web site list a phone number of 724-463-7505. Old Pa Pitt found the people there very friendly and helpful when he stopped in.
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