Tacony is a Northeast Corridor Line station with five-tracks, although only the northernmost four are electrified. This means that only one set of doors can open on Trenton-bound trains, with passengers using a wooden level crossing and board to board trains. The Philadelphia-bound platform is more conventional, able to hold three cars, as a low-level platform with line of boarding blocks along it to reduce the step up into the vestibules of trains. There is ability for two sets of doors to open on the adjacent express track when needed. A fence runs down the middle of the tracks to prevent anyone from illegally crossing the tracks that this location where high speed trains go by at this station owned by Amtrak.
The two platforms are both connected by Disston Street that crosses under the tracks a bit south of the station. The sides of railroad bridge facing the street are painted with the message: “Welcome to Disston Estate, Philadelphia, City of Neighborhoods.” Each platform has a short 8 foot path that leads from its staircase to the station platform itself.
The Center City-bound platform has an additional entrance via sidewalks into Christina Lewis Memorial Park in the surrounding neighborhood. The staircase is only entrance to the Trenton-bound platform.
The passengers' amenities at the station are minimal. The Trenton-bound platform has a green cinderblock with a concrete roof shelter. I believe it contains a bench. The Center City-bound platform has a slightly more modern but probably less helpful shelter with windscreens on three sides and what looks like a gabled roof with shingles. There is a green bench.
Photos 1-32: March 27, 2013;
Silverliner IV #159 stops in the station, going to Trenton, it's not on the track next to the little platform because of a freight track
Two doors open on Silverline IV #159 and #160 opens the doors of one just vestibule down to a wooden boarding step attached to a level crossing at Tacony
Looking across the single boarding area on the Trenton-bound platform at the Center City-bound platform across the tracks
A Tacony sign on a concrete cinderblock shelter on the tiny Trenton-bound platform
Looking across the 4 NEC tracks
The walkway down to Disston Street, the only way to leave the Trenton-bound platform
The sidewalk approaching the Trenton-bound platform
Looking across the freight track, and NEC tracks beyond
The short staircase down to a sign to leave the Trenton-bound platform
The Tacony Station sign by the staircase that is the only entrance to the Trenton-bound platform
Text on the Disston Street bridge for Welcome to Disston Estate: Philadelphia City of Neighborhoods
Staircase up to the Center City-bound platform
The Center City-bound platform main entrance totem
On the sidewalk up to the Center City-bound platform
Approaching the Center City-bound platform
Approaching the shelter on the Center City-bound platform
Looking south down the NEC from the Center City-bound platform
Looking north past wooden boarding crossings from the Center City-bound platform
A Do Not Cross Tracks sign and a bench inside the shelter on the Center City-bound platform
The main pathway to leave the Center City-bound platform to Disston Street
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