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Re: (rshsdepot) Buffalo, NY
On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 Don Dorflinger related:
>
> If my recollection serves me correctly, the DL&W Passenger station is
> long gone, and only a portion of the trainsheds remain. Are we talking
> about the freight house???
>
The headhouse is long gone and what remains was the trainshed above and the
baggage/express/freight area below. In the photo Jim attached the headhouse
was in the foreground and attached to the trainshed where the mirrored windows
are.
I am fortunate to have had the opportunity to explore the abandoned ruins of
the terminal area in the mid 70's as a teenager when I used to go on frequent
day trip safaris around the Buffalo area on my bicycle. It was quite a place
in its day and it's a shame (like so many others) that it was demolished.
Buffalo had three good sized stub end passenger terminals downtown at one
point, DL&W, Erie and LV. The Erie's was the first to go, in the 30's I think,
then the LV in the middle 50's and finally DL&W's, a couple decades after the
1962 abandonment.
There are some good photos and data pages at the LOC website:
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=hhphoto&fileName=ny/ny0100/ny0199/photos/browse.db&action=browse
That's the shortest functional URL to get right to the pages (LOC's URL scheme
is an abomination) so beware of wrapping lines when doing a copy and paste to
a browser.
Henry
J. Henry Priebe Jr. Blue Moon Internet Corp Network Administrator
www.bluemoon.net Internet Access & Web Hosting
www.railfan.net Railfan Network Services
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