| Here is page six of an 18-page article entitled "The Pennsylvania Railroad In Altoona: 1849-1949." It was published originally in the "Altoona Centennial Booklet" dated August of 1949, page 19. "The first railroad station in Altoona was a small frame structure on Ninth Avenue at Twelfth Street. Here, the railroad traffic into Altoona and what little passed on to Hollidaysburg and the Portage Railroad was handled until February 15, 1854, when a new two-story brick structure, erected at Tenth Avenue and Thirteenth Street, was opened for business over the newly completed main line via Horseshoe Curve and Gallitzin. In 1887 the present station building, affording larger quarters, was erected on the same site." |