The trains that come, and the trains that go

Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926 · 1919

"Philadelphians do not know that they have the most pictorial train shed in the world, a shed which amazes Europeans, but then what do Philadelphians know? Each other, Spruce Street and their ancestors. But there it is and when it is on a spring or fall day filled with the trains that come and that go and the smoke and steam that comes from them it is amazing, so amazing, that no Philadelphian has ever seen it, or drawn it, or etched it, or painted it, but now I have shown it to them, they will all be doing it." J[oseph] P[ennell].