In the 1970s this was National Tire & Glass Sales, Inc., founded by former mayor Henry J. Loeblein, who also owned Tawney’s Garage on the other side of Adams Street at that time. They were a wholesale distributor of automotive products. In 2017 this became the home of East Coast Tire & Glass, just south of the railroad bridge.

From their parking lot south of the track can be seen the remaining foundation of the former passenger train station of the Pennsylvania Railroad, which had a ticket office, waiting room, and baggage room here. The station opened in 1906 but after the closure of The Graw racetrack in 1950 use of the train declined in favor of automobiles. At the end of 1967 the Pennsylvania Railroad announced plans to close the station. The “strangely isolated station house,” about four blocks from the “unhurried downtown,” its exterior splashed with graffiti  and its broken window boarded up, was “little more than a roost for pigeons and an out-of-the-way place for a lonely man to swill a bottle and reminisce,” is the way the Baltimore Sun summed up the news.

The station burned down in October 1968 due to arson. J. Franklin Hawley said he watched the fire from his home in Burns Apartments on Green Street (at that time he didn’t know, of course, that the Burns Apartments would burn down just two months later). An entrance leading under and through the embankment to Warren Street can still be seen behind a fence. There were steps up to the platforms from the tunnel also. Many people cut through it as a shortcut, although some said it was “spooky” and very dimly lit. Fred Packard says it was every kid’s challenge to run through the tunnel at the exact time a train was passing overhead. “Incredible racket!” But it was Wayne Hawkins who confessed to going into the tunnel at night with an old tennis racket and chasing bats.

The north side of the station foundation can be seen from Warren Street and now has a beautiful mural painted on it by local artist, Shawn Forton. Today, passenger trains pass over this bridge on Adams Street several times a day but none stop. This property, along with one-half of an acre facing onto Juniata Street by the railroad bridge now belongs to T&D Enterprises, LLC.

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Built 1969. 5760 sq ft storage warehouse, 27,837 sq ft lot.