Was pleasantly surprised to find that the oldest surviving passenger railroad station in the country is here in Philadelphia county - Shawmont station in Roxborough. Currently undergoing rehab to reopen this summer.MeEvilBob t1_j7eouy7 wrote
Reply to comment by Indiana_Jawnz in Was pleasantly surprised to find that the oldest surviving passenger railroad station in the country is here in Philadelphia county - Shawmont station in Roxborough. Currently undergoing rehab to reopen this summer. by Odd-Emergency5839
I love that the reason the station building is two story is because back in the day the stationmaster and their family would live in an apartment above the station, that way there's someone there on site 24/7. It's kind of a lighthouse deal, which makes sense considering that back before all the development, stations like this one really were in the middle of nowhere.
Indiana_Jawnz t1_j7gv3bf wrote
Nixon street was so much more isolated and quiet just 20 years ago when I was a kid. Back in the 1970s and before it was about as close to the country as you could get inside of city limits.
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