30th Street Station

This guide to 30th Street Station in Philadelphia stands you before a wall of 1,307 names, the Pennsylvania Railroad workers who died in the second world war, and the bronze angel raised above them. Its sculptor, Walker Hancock, spent the war itself hunting not soldiers but stolen art, as one of the Monuments Men sent into liberated Europe to recover what the Nazis had looted and buried. You'll hear about the flooded salt mine in Germany where he found a Watteau masterpiece, and how that search shaped the memorial he later built for the railroad's own dead. Stand where General Omar Bradley stood at its 1952 unveiling and read a name.