Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Station

This article is about the station terminal in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For other Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad stations, see Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad. For the current occupant, see Station Square.

Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Station
General information
Line(s)	Pittsburgh Subdivision
Former services
Preceding station Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Following station New Castle toward Chicago Main Line Connellsville toward Jersey City Millvale toward Chicago Braddock toward Jersey City Hazelwood toward Cincinnati Cincinnati – Pittsburgh Terminus Terminus Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway Ribold Junction toward Buffalo Preceding station New York Central Railroad Following station Coraopolis toward Youngstown Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Main Line Terminus McKee's Rocks toward Youngstown Terminus Pittsburgh – Brownsville 22nd Street toward Brownsville Youghiogheny Branch South Side toward Connellsville
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
City of Pittsburgh Historic Structure
Pittsburgh Landmark – PHLF
Location	Smithfield St. at Carson St., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°26′1″N 80°0′14″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1898
Architect	Burns, William George
Architectural style	Classical Revival, Edwardian
NRHP reference No.	74001743
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	January 11, 1974
Designated CPHS	March 15, 1974
Designated PHLF	1970

The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Station, now Landry's, Inc.'s the Grand Concourse restaurant in Station Square Plaza in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a building constructed in 1898. Into the 1960s, the station was the depot for the passenger rail operations of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad and the Pittsburgh depot from 1934 for the many trains of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from Baltimore, Washington, Chicago, Detroit, and St. Louis. In 1934, the B&O obtained trackage rights on the P&LE from New Castle Junction to McKeesport and until the discontinuance of its passenger service used the P&LE station to reduce the amount of heavy curvature trackage required to reach the original B&O station on the opposite side of the Monongahela River.

The Pittsburgh Station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

Gallery

• 
  The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Station, c.1905
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  B&O's Diplomat at the P&LE Station c. 1970
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  Inside the station concourse
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  Station Square area of the Monongahela River showing the back of P&LE Railroad Station 1951.

See also

• Grant Street Station
• Union Station (Pittsburgh)
• Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal
• Baltimore and Ohio Station (Pittsburgh)

External links

Media related to Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Station at Wikimedia Commons

• Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. PA-1231, "Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Station, Smithfield & Carson Streets, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA", 2 photos, 2 data pages, 1 photo caption page