Ash dumping house, 2nd floor, 15th and Wood St.
The second floor of the original ash dumping house at 15th & Wood Sts., showing the manner in which the wagons were emptied through chutes into the cars below.
“Originally the refuse was loaded at a corrugated-iron building at 15th and Wood Streets. A branch track was built up Wood St. and through the building.” – from Utility Cars of Philadelphia by Harold Cox (1971).