Grant Street Station, also known as the B&O Pittsburgh Terminal, was a

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station on

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downtown

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. The

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first section opening in 1830. Merchants from Baltimore, which had benefited to some extent from the construction of ...

(B&O) announced plans for it on May 3, 1955, after selling the original B&O Station bordering the

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to the state for construction of

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. It opened in 1957 to serve

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traffic; all intercity traffic continued to use the

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's (P&LE) station (now called

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). Grant Street was the last such privately owned train station built in

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. After the

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(PAT) assumed control of the B&O's Pittsburgh—

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—

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commuter route in 1975 (which it re-branded

PATrain The PATrain, also known as Mon Valley Commuter Rail, was a commuter rail service owned by the Port Authority of Allegheny County in the Monongahela Valley in the US state of Pennsylvania. Service began in 1975 when the Port Authority assumed owne ...

), Grant Street continued to serve as the Pittsburgh depot for this service. PAT discontinued the service in 1989; Grant Street itself was demolished in 1998. The site is now home to

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and the First Avenue light rail station.

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