Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal
{{Short description|Railroad station}}
{{about|the former train terminal in Pittsburgh|the complex occupying the current site| Gateway Center (Pittsburgh)}}
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| name = Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal
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| image_caption = The Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal building.
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| coordinates = {{Coord|40.4410|-80.0045|display=inline,title}}
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| platform = 3
| tracks = 6
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| opened = April 13, 1904
| closed = October 31, 1931
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| other_services_header = Former services
| other_services = {{Adjacent stations|system=Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway|line=Main|left=West Belt Junction}}
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The Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal was a railroad station located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Constructed in 1903 and opened on April 13, 1904, the 11 floor Beaux-Arts domed 197 foot tall terminal was designed by Theodore Carl Link and cost George Jay Gould $800,000 (${{formatprice|{{Inflation|US|800,000|1903|r=1}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US}} dollars). Floors 1 through 3 contained ticketing, passenger waiting areas and some retail with floors 4 and above serving hundreds of offices of Gould's Wabash Railway Corporation. The terminal lasted only four years as a Wabash Railroad terminal when the Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway entered receivership on May 29, 1908. The Wabash would go on to lose both this railway and end affiliation with the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway. The terminal continued to service passenger traffic until October 31, 1931, but survived beyond that as an office building and freight-only facility. Upon its repurposing, the building also lost its 11th-floor cupola. The adjacent freight warehouse was closed after two successive fires on March 6, and March 22, 1946 destroyed most of the infrastructure. The station was announced for demolition on July 5, 1953 to make way for the Gateway Center complex. Demolition started on October 5, 1953 and was completed in early 1954.
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Further reading
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- {{cite book |last=Worley, Jr. |first=Howard V. |title=Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway |publisher=Mechling Bookbindery |date=2004 |isbn=0-9658620-1-1}}
- {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uTC-uzSxNm4C&dq=wabash+station+pittsburgh+1904&pg=PA92 |title=Skyscraper Facades of the Gilded Age: Fifty-One Extravagant Designs, 1875-1910 |isbn=9780786470723 |first=Joseph J. |last=Korom, Jr. |date=2013|publisher=McFarland }}
- {{cite news |url=http://pgdigs.tumblr.com/post/31331605442/march-10-1951-wabash-railroad-station-and |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=March 10, 1951 |title=Wabash Railroad Station and Building |first=Mila |last=Sanina}}
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External links
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- [http://www.steelcactus.com/OLD_PGH_33.jpg Hi-Res image of Wabash Terminal]
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Category:Railway stations in the United States opened in 1904
Category:Demolished railway stations in the United States
Category:Demolished buildings and structures in Pittsburgh
Category:Former Wabash Railroad stations
Category:Railway stations in Pittsburgh
Category:History of Pittsburgh
Category:Buildings and structures demolished in 1953
Category:Railway stations in the United States closed in 1931