World Trade Center (PATH)

On November 22, 2003 the first temperary PATH station opened. I was 14 years old and arrved there on a PATH train around 3:00pm after the station opened at 2:00pm. I wrote that day:
"After going under the Hudson River we 'bash through' the bathtub/pit wall (this is a site that will give anyone a surprise). We go on a 'roller coaster' ride on the bottom of ground zero for about 30 seconds before turning into the station. We stop on track 4, (there are 5 tracks and three platforms in all (two island, one side ) there are a lot of people milling around the platform not getting onto a train (the station was free for the day)."

The restoration also included an advertisement on one of the tunnel walls that used the trains motion to look like the advertisement was moving through animation, though it was just a series of static walls. These were removed a few years after the World Trade Center tunnel reopened.
Photo 1: October 10, 2003; 2-18: November 22, 2003; 19 & 20: August 8, 2006; 21: February 25, 2006;

2008-2016 Temporary Station The Oculus-WTC Transportation Hub PATH Train Platforms

The entrance stucture under construction at World Trade Center
10 October, 2003

Looking into the construction site entering World Trade Center. The odd looking half-filled tube was the entrance to the abandoned PATH station at Hudson Terminal beneath Church Street

Curving into World Trade Center the station and tubes are on loop entering Manhattan what would be two blocks apart

Looking back down to a platform at World Trade Center. It is very crouded, many people are there as tourists, not to board trains

Heading up a staircase leaving the PATH platform

Looking across the World Trade Center lower mezzanine. There was a 2 hour service disruption when a Hoboken train hit a cabel discontinuing service there.