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The Freight Depot and the People Who Tried to Save It

14. VIEW OF CONRAIL FREIGHT STATION ON PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE LOOKING SOUTHWEST. LOCATED BETWEEN DEPOT AND WASHINGTON STREETS. - Town of Mount Union
14. VIEW OF CONRAIL FREIGHT STATION ON PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE LOOKING SOUTHWEST. LOCATED BETWEEN DEPOT AND WASHINGTON STREETS. - Town of Mount UnionLibrary of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record. No known copyright restrictions. pa2822.photos.038898p

The Pennsylvania Railroad put up a new freight depot in Mount Union in 1914, on Pennsylvania Avenue between Depot and Washington streets. It did not replace the old freight office so much as grow onto it. Sanborn insurance maps from 1919 still show part of the older building attached to the east side, and the line of that old roof could be read on the east wall long after the building itself came off.

When the federal survey team came through, the depot had sat unused for twenty years or more, Conrail had announced plans to tear it down, and a group of townspeople was trying to acquire it for a community library or a senior citizens center.

Sources

  1. Shedd 1991, Pennsylvania Railroad: Mount Union Freight Depot
  2. LOC caption pa2822.photos.038898p

Checked 2026-08-22 · Historic Mount Union collection

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