| 17th Street. Here is an original photo that I took of the former Pennsylvania Railroad's Test Plant building in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on 24 June 1972 ~ not too long before it was demolished. One of the things that made the PRR the "Standard Railroad of the World" was its long-standing, in-house capacity to design, experiment, and test ~ much of which happened in this building and the locomotive dynamometer facility behind it. When the PRR stopped designing, experimenting, and testing . . . well, you know what happened then. |