http://www.weather.com/travel/abandoned-train-stations-photos-20130506
That had to be one amazing and beautiful structure in it’s day. Judging by the size, and how spread out it is, I bet it was always being added on to, and updated, probably kept a lot of tradesman working. Now I have to do a search and see if I can find any pictures of when it was in operation.
Mike.
I have the track chart over my desk. Every now and again I will start drawing up how I would try to model it. If you are ever in the Buffalo area the Buffalo Central Terminal Corp has tours.
http://buffalocentralterminal.org/
They are doing some great work.
Chris
You’d have to have a pretty good-sized space to model the Buffalo Terminal - even in N-scale. I’m glad that they are trying to restore her.
It’s too bad that the LS&MS station in Detroit is in such sad shape. There was talk about renovating her. However, between the vandals and Detroit’s financial horizon, there’s little chance of that happening - if ever. Sad. [:'(]
Tom
Believe it or not but John Armstrong did a track plan for the PRR & NYC use of this station on a relatively small layout in the first trackplan book they did of custom Armstong track plans.
Rick J
There is an episode of Urban Explorer (a great show, but I think it was cancelled) that covered the Buffalo Terminal. Here is the link to the first part, you can get to the other parts from here.
Good link.
That’s going to cost an outragious fortune to maintain though.
The Detroit station in that link looks like it was pretty amazing when in use as well…
Did not need to model it. My whole train room (and my room, and my office) look just like it.
ROAR
I used to visit this when I was a kid. Described as “centrally located, in the middle of nowhere”, the projected growth for that area of the city did not happen the way they had imagined. I rode the Penn Central to Detroit out of this place. The BCT website says (I think) that the terminal was never fully occupied…
Mike
There was a Trains article on it years ago possibly the early 80s.
“The Building Beautiful in Buffalo”
I tried 20 years ago. I knew little about model railroading at the time. Here’s a video of my N-Scale lay-out from 18 years ago…
An absolutely fascinating area and an incredible amount of trackage in its heyday. I’m brainstorming making a backdrop of the building itself with a modest amount of trackage related to it. But then, I also want NYC’s Gardenville Yard and PRR’s Ebenezer Yard and Bison Yard – not to mention other area yards – may have to settle for one or two yards and just switch name signs from time to time.
Very nicely done. [tup][tup]
A few photos which I took this past Spring show it in not-so-nice-condition:
Wayne
Bugsfan:
I would beg to disagree! If you could pull that off you certainly weren’t lacking in modelling skills.
By the way, welcome to the forums!! [#welcome]
Dave
The Detroit station IS being restored ! Almost all the new windows are in place …
Mark.
Excellent! Thanks for the update, Mark! [:D] I hadn’t gotten wind that that was happening.
Tom
Slight correction: The mentioned former New York Central Station in Detroit is a Michigan Central station, not an LS&MS one.
Victor A. Baird
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Tristess…Quelle domage… I’m from the Milwaukee area and we lost the two big German castles that served the MILW and C&NW a lo-o-o-ng time ago. I left to join my parents in Rhinelander, WI, from the lakeside NorthWestern station after I graduated high school in '58. Now, THAT was railroad architecture! It’s a shame the U.S. didn’t use its railroads the way the Europeans did—and still do!
Deano