Avalon Station Traditional Cache

AVALON STATION

 

I could not place the cache any closer to the actual station site because that property is posted no trespassing. The county real estate maps, however show the road as public almost all the way down to the tracks so you could take a closer look at the site and also where the footbridge might have been that took commuters to the platform across the tracks. Some of the guards are missing so if you do venture down don't take small kids and be careful near the edge.

Interestingly the current  tax records for the property still shows the owner as the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railtraod (Long, Long gone)
 

This was one of a number of stations along the Ohio in Allegheny County. I don't know when it may have been built, but it does appear on an 1897 map as part of the PFW&C RR and it was in use into the 1960's as a Pennsylvania RR commuter station. When the station was in use, you could take the road down to the station, or via several sets of steps or across the tracks via a footbridge to a platform on the other side of the tracks.