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Broad Street Station opened here in 1881 under the Pennsylvania Railroad and was enlarged in 1893. It was once the world's largest railroad passenger terminal. Its great arched train shed burned in 1923. The station and its long elevated stone track bed, known as the “Chinese Wall,” remained until 1952-53.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · United States
