Tourist Office: no
Restrooms: cleaned with bleach just before the first train arrived at 5 am
Hotels: multiple
ATM: several banks are a 15 to 20 minute walk away
Groceries: There are a couple of small markets downtown. There is a regular-sized grocery store is back along the tracks across a highway. This may or may not be walkable.
Other transit: Bus bay parallel to the tracks. Regional and local buses stop here. Greyhound is across the street from the station exit. There is a subway stop within walking distance, but it is not easy to find.
An amazing number of people are awake early in the morning in Pittsburgh, but there are not many businesses open early. If you are looking for a place to eat after getting off the early morning train, walk down Liberty Avenue to Smithfield. Walking further down Liberty will take you further into downtown. Liberty Avenue ends at Point State Park which is the location of Fort Pitt, where Pittsburgh was founded.
PNC Park, the home of the Pirates, is just across from downtown via the Roberto Clemente (6th Street) Bridge. The Andy Warhol Museum is on the same side of the river.
Two daily Amtrak routes pass through Pittsburgh. The Pennsylvanian leaves early in the morning and then returns late in the evening. This train takes five and a half hours to arrive at Harrisburg, seven and a half to get to Philadelphia and finally ends in New York City, nine and a half hours later. Pittsburgh is in the middle of the Capitol Limited. This train takes five and a half hours to arrive at Harrisburg, seven and a half to get to Philadelphia and finally ends in New York City, nine and a half hours later. Pittsburgh is an intermediate stop on the Capitol Limited route. Going north and west, the Capitol Limited is an overnight train to Chicago that stops in Cleveland and Toledo during the night. Going the other direction, it leaves very early in the morning to go to Washington, DC, eight hours away. The train coming into Pittsburgh from DC arrives in the evening.
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