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Alpine
Batavia
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Clayton
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Elmira
Granville
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There are precious few good references for many of the railroad stations and depots that used to exist.

One of the better resources I have come across to this end is the plethora of old post cards still around depicting many of these structures, some better than others.

Most of the postcards were found on EBay unless noted, other pictures, mostly the more recent ones, come from Google and/or Bing images - credit given if the source is known. 

Dates are in the picture name, x means the date is approximate.  If they were available, and interesting, I included the back side of the postcards.  1901a and 1910b would be the same card, both sides.

If the picture was really, really bad, some of them have been cleaned up and/or repaired when I had the energy.

Since many of these stations are no longer around (railfans seem to prefer the term "extant", I'm not one of them! :-), this page is mostly for historical reference.

This page is mostly for historical reference, as MANY of these stations are not around anymore!

What's the difference between a station and a depot?  Most people will say "nuttin", it's a matter of preference, although many will use depot for older buildings.

If you have a picture you would like to contribute, please see the bottom of the page for how to find me, credit is always given to contributing photographers.

Albany

  1970, found via Google Images

  ~1940

2017

  NYC station, maybe ~1910?


Alpine

  found via Google Images


Batavia

Batavia had two train stations for the New York Central.  The first was downtown, and then come the 1950's when the NYC built a "bypass" around downtown Batavia, they built a much smaller and simpler one off of Ellicott St.  The building now serves as a storage building for CSX, and over the years, has been losing what remained of the NEW YORK CENTRAL in 1930's Art Deco style stainless steel letters.  Don't you wish you could have seen the downtown station?

I lived here in back in the good ole days of 1964-1965, when the New York Central, Lehigh Valley, and Lackawanna came into town.  Now, Batavia is home to CSX (altho there isn't much left of the station), and a short line, the Depew, Lancaster, and Western.  Below the two postcards is a picture of the depot from 2006 when I stopped thru town.

My guide to Batavia is here

  found on EBay

  found on EBay





  A DLW freight

  found on EBay

  the Lehigh Valley train station

  Steamtown collection, Erie Depot


Binghamton

 

 

   


Bronxville

A tiny community tucked away between the Bronx and the the rest of Westchester County, namely New Rochelle, but the New Haven had a stop there.

  found via Google Images


Buffalo

What can you say... this old depot must have been great back in it's heyday... fortunately, it's still with us, and "they" are trying to figure out what to do with it.  When I was there in 2006, there was a theater using some of the space to rehearse in.  It has been replaced by Amtrak with two stations, one in Depew, and a real sorry excuse for one in the downtown Buffalo area.

       

         
 

Downtown Buffalo










Buffalo -- Lehigh Valley Terminal




Chatham

  photo: Jon Rothenmeyer, 1997


Clayton

  Seller: baysideantiques_02


Depew

Although Buffalo has a downtown station, Depew is now pretty much the main station for Buffalo, residing about 8 miles or so east of the downtown area.








Elmira

Elmira had three railroads at one time, and each one had a depot: the Erie, the Lackawanna, and the Lehigh Valley.
Elmira -- Erie RR Station

  found via Google Images






Elmira -- Lackawanna RR Station






Elmira -- Lehigh Valley RR Station




Granville

Here are some scans of postcards collected by Phil F of Harrisburg, who grew up in Granville.
If you Google Granville, you may find that references to Grandville will also show up.

 

 

 


Mamaroneck -- Commuter Station

Mamaroneck is another former Hew Haven RR commuter station on the New Haven Line, just after New Rochelle if you're headed towards New Haven.




New Rochelle -- Commuter Station

New Rochelle is a former New Haven RR commuter station on the New Haven Line.  I was born here way back in 1951.  Nice little town in Westchester County, just a stones throw outside New York City's Bronx.  During the early to mid 1900's, it was a popular place for Italians to settle once they came through Ellis Island in NYC.  Once we moved away in the late 50's, we still came back to visit my father's parents, while my mother's parents lived in the Queens alongside the New Haven, the same line that came through New Rochelle and the station below is on.  The line is currently used by Amtrak and the Metro North commuter trains.  Amtrak replaced the last of the New Haven style triangular catenary around 1990 or so.  Metro North remodeled the station once they got rid of the old low platform New Haven cars, and went to high platform cars.





  1957

   

 



New York City

    Seller: beth0514


New York City -- Grand Central Terminal

The current Grand Central Terminal was built in 1903, replacing an older structure built in 1871?  The station was remodeled in 1913.  The station covers 48 acres in the middle on Manhattan, and has both a lower and upper deck for automobiles.

All of the tracks are underground - There are 30 tracks  on the upper level, and 26 on the lower level, and 44 platforms, but only 43 tracks are currently in service.
Upper level tracks are numbered 11-42, east to west.  Track 14 is only used for a garbage train. 
Tracks 22 and 31 were removed in 1990 to build concourses for the Grand Central North.
Lower level tracks are numbered 100 to 126.  Currently, only tracks 102-112 and 114 to 116 are in use.

Neither the city, the MTA, or the railroads own the building, it is owned by a private venture called Midtown TDR Ventures.

Two of the original rotary converters are still on the property, not removed as part of a 1990's upgrade to solid-state converters for the DC power.  Their location remains a "secret" because of the damage that could be done to the whole North East Corridor.

There are over 40 stores and restaurants, and an easy to access MTA Souvenir Store.

More info is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Terminal

  Construction of the track area in 1871.

  Early 1900's

 

  The earlier Grand Central Station

 









  Tracks of the earlier Grand Central Station










New York City -- Penn Station




Pelham -- Commuter Station

Pelham is another former Hew Haven RR commuter station on the New Haven Line, just before New Rochelle.

  found via Google Images




Plattsburgh

  found via Google Images


Port Chester -- Commuter Station

  found via Google Images


Rochester

Rochester used to host five railroads, and had a subway that served the trolleys and trains for 30 years.  The railroads were the New York Central, the Lehigh Valley, the Erie, the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh, and the Pennsylvania RR.

Rochester's 1st NYC station

  The NYC station between Mill and Front

Rochester's 2nd NYC station








Rochester's 3rd NYC station

Subway The stationed opened in 1914



Rochester's Lehigh Valley station

  interesting collage

Rochester's BR&P station

  Found on Wikipedia

Rochester's Subway

The subway was built on portions of the old Erie Canal and operated from 1927 to 1956.
More info here: http://www.rochestersubway.com/topics/



  City Hall station during WWII

  Subway construction at Monroe St



  Former entrance at Brown St, probably filled up by now....

  Subway Monroe St entrance

  Graffiti in the subway tunnels

  Subway entrance at Exchange and Broad Streets

In General



  uploaded by Brian Hotchkiss

  Rochester Junction


Salamanca

  found via Google Images

  in 1996, Jim Dent photo


Wellsburg

  found via Google Images


Westchester Ave -- Commuter Station

  found via Google Images


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