Railroad Architectural Gems in jeopardy

ICAC, St. Albans train shed is on Classic Trains forum, too.

http://cs.trains.com/ctr/f/3/t/232462.aspx

Fantastic pictures and discussion in the article. Thanks, Wanswheel.

I sometimes wonder if the indignities thrust upon a couple of our old passenger depots aren’t worse than letting them go. The IC depot has been gutted and remodeled 4 or 5 times that I can recall, and not very nicely done. The Milwaukee Road depot has had the high pitched roof hacked off and has been a restaurant, office building, and now half way house. It’s not a pretty sight.

Too bad the trainshed portion of St. Albans was torn down in the early Amtrak era. It sounds like ATK is using a smaller former customs building for their station.