McDonald's West Bound Passenger Train Station
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McDonald's East Bound Passenger Train Station

McDonald's West Bound Passenger Train Station, also, McDonald's East Bound Passenger Train Station. . , McDonald's West Bound Passenger Train Station , The West bound passenger station, believed to have been built during the 1890s, was located along the North side of the tracks. A bridge to the passenger station from Station Street served the community until it was demolished in the early 1950s., This picture clearly shows the four track rail line that was constructed in McDonald to serve its vigorous business and passenger activity..... Several additional side tracks also existed which were used to assist coal loading and building supplies unloading... Also note the many travelers on the platform and the several passenger cars attached to the arriving train to serve them., The large building behind the West bound station was built by the Pittsburgh Coal Co. and originally housed their local office and the Federal Supply Co. store...Federal Supply, which was indirectly owned by Pittsburgh Coal, was better known as "The Company Store" to which many a local miner, as the song goes, owed his soul., McDonald's East Bound Passenger Station , The original and main McDonald Train Station , Most likely the first public building constructed in McDonald (at that time called Havelock Village) was the train station built by the Pennsylvania, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (PCCBSL) during the 1860s and enlarged and improved upon by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) in the 1870s. In addition to serving as the main train station the building, because of its size and location, was also used until 1890 by the village for various church and town management meetings., Eventually, another passenger station was built on the opposite side of the tracks to accommodate travelers heading to the West. However, the original station, In addition to serving passengers heading East, continued to house the Station Master's office and main Ticket Office... At one time several hundred people a day used the railroad to travel back and forth to work and to Pittsburgh to shop. Both buildings were torn down in the 1970s., Note in the distance the oil well, the McCarty Lumber Yard horse and wagon and the coal loading tipple running from the Brier Hill Coal Mine to the railroad tracks.