Fire near Septa Tracks

[MeowRailroad]

Recently, a fire happened near Septa tracks.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/b...ips_through_North_Philadelphia_warehouse.html
I am hoping that it wasn't a certain warehouse that appeared to have been served by Reading, when it owned those tracks.

 

[cascaderailroad]

Sounds like good urban renewal ... the building had to be demolished, and will not be getting any more railcar shipments via the Reading railroad :hehe: Not that it ever did receive rail service, ever since the 1950's

 

[MeowRailroad]

It's just that it's an interesting building.

 

[cascaderailroad]

"Was" an interesting building ... it's just rubble now

 

[wva-usa]

Always a shame when older buildings are lost. The ones that replace them are almost always have far less character, architecturally. The design of most contemporary industrial buildings in the U.S. is terribly boring.

 

[MeowRailroad]

"Was" an interesting building ... it's just rubble now

I don't know if it was in the fire, and I am concerned about it, just because it's a neat building.

 

[cascaderailroad]

It was just a long warehouse, with a square 2 story office that had one wall cut off on a diagonal. As the building, 10 foot away, was going to collapse on the tracks, it was demolished. Unknown if the long warehouse was destroyed, as well ... But it looked like a pretty carpy place to work.