Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal

This article is about the former train terminal in Pittsburgh. For the complex occupying the current site, see Gateway Center (Pittsburgh).

Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal
The Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal building.
General information
Coordinates	40.4410°N 80.0045°W / 40.4410; -80.0045
Platforms	3
Tracks	6
History
Opened	April 13, 1904
Closed	October 31, 1931
Former services
Preceding station Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway Following station West Belt Junction toward Pittsburgh Junction Main Line Terminus

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 ($27.1 million in 2023 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.

See also

• Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Station
• Grant Street Station
• Union Station (Pittsburgh)
• Baltimore and Ohio Station (Pittsburgh)

Further reading

• Worley, Jr., Howard V. (2004). Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway. Mechling Bookbindery. ISBN 0-9658620-1-1.
• Korom, Jr., Joseph J. (2013). Skyscraper Facades of the Gilded Age: Fifty-One Extravagant Designs, 1875-1910. ISBN 9780786470723.
• Sanina, Mila (March 10, 1951). "Wabash Railroad Station and Building". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

External links

• Hi-Res image of Wabash Terminal