You have arrived at an Amtrak railway station located approximately 30 miles (48 km) east of Pittsburgh at Harrison Avenue and Seton Hill Drive in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. The station is located just north of the city center. It is served only by Amtrak's Pennsylvanian, which operates once daily in each direction.
The station was opened in 1912 by the Pennsylvania Railroad as part of a project to elevate the right-of-way as it passed through Greensburg. William Holmes Cookman served as architect. The depot is constructed of red brick laid in a Flemish bond pattern with stone trim and quoins on the building's corners; the overall architectural style is Jacobean Revival. A tall square clock tower is topped by a copper ogee dome with finial. Ornamented parapets with center cartouches and corner finials surround the dome.
From March to November 1981, the station was the eastern terminus of PennDOT's Parkway Limited train, which took commuters to Pittsburgh. Until 2005, Greensburg was served by the Three Rivers (a replacement service for the Broadway Limited), an extended version of the Pennsylvanian that terminated in Chicago. Its cancellation marked the first time in Greensburg's railway history that the town was served by a single daily passenger train. The small shelter that serves as the present station has no ticket office.
The station has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1977. The historic station now houses a restaurant.
Please be courteous of where you park to access this cache. There is one row of metered parking spots, several leased lots and parking for the nearby restaurant. There is also nearby street parking as well as additional parking lots nearby.
Geocachers wishing to claim credit for this find should answer the following questions via e-mail to the cache placers (Profile above):
- Utilizing the historical marker at these coordinates, when did the first train stop in Greensburg?
- What shape is etched into the bricks in the roadway in front of the train station?
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