Historic Train Station in Wilmington, Delaware Hosts Train Buffs
By Carolyn Roland- In Delaware and S. Chester County PA, Carolyn Roland, GRI, CRS
(Independent architectural histor'n)
Last week, I walked up the Christina River Riverwalk towards the Amtrak station and downtown Wilmington. It was a big day for our Friends of the Furness Railroad District. We were hosting the Baltimore and Ohio RR Historical Society, which brought 2 busloads of conventioneers from Baltimore to visit the Wilmington & Western RR steam train, and the waterfront turn of the 20th century B&O Water St. station, which has been restored by ING (which explains the big orange ball) The restoration of this building (which is part of the Furness RR District which also includes the Pennsylvania RR station (now Amtrak), and the Pennsylvania RR office building) was quite extensive, and involved raising it a couple of feet to meet new street levels, and repairing all the rot and abuse it had...
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