Stations

[Peirce]

This topic got burried in the long original thread, so I am breaking it out here with a fresh start. I know there are many examples, both grand and humble, new and old, that you probably have in your files. Also, don't hesitate using pictures you used already in the long thread.

I will start off with a relatively new, but humble station. This is the Metro North station in Danbury, Connecticut.

http://images2.fotki.com/v2/photos/4/41513/120898/020_METRO_NORTH_STATION_IN-vi.jpg

[ 23. June 2003, 00:24: Message edited by: Peirce ]

[Peirce]

To quote Monty Python, "And now for something completly different." At least at the opposite end of the scale from the previous picture.

This is both old and grand. Here is a night shot of the front of the Lakawanna Station in Scranton, PA. It has been converted into a hotel.

http://images.fotki.com/v4/photos/4/41513/120898/003_FRONT_OF_LAKAWANNA_STA-vi.jpg

[ 23. June 2003, 00:26: Message edited by: Peirce ]

[Peirce]

A classic art deco Paris Metro entrance. This is the last one to still have the glass over the stairs. This in Montmartre.

http://images2.fotki.com/v2/photos/4/41513/85047/022_A_CLASSIC_ART_DECO_PAR-vi.jpg

[ 23. June 2003, 00:28: Message edited by: Peirce ]

[Hytec]

Nice stations Pierce. I wish I had some original photos of the Chatham, NY (B&A/NYC-Harlem Div) and the Bedford Hills, NY (NYC-Harlem Div) stations. They both were built of field stone and quite charming. A side note - I believe the Chatham station was designed by my Grandfather in the late 1800's.

[Martyn Read]

http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1533613&a=12124710&p=45974340

This is the depot at Northeast PA, which is now a really cool little museum, they also had some cool stuff there, like a South Shore Little Joe, a NYC U25B and some nice old reefers, passenger cars (including a former Empire Builder car you can see in the background)
To cap it off the CSX & NS main lines pass in front of the building (to the right in the pic) so you get all the main line action too.

I can reccomend! smile.gif

[Martyn Read]

http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1533613&a=12124710&p=43951312

This is the station at Point of Rocks MD, a really great train watching place! It's the junction where the CSX main line from the West splits to go to Baltimore or Washington DC.

In the pic the DC lines are in the foreground & the Baltimore lines go the other side of the building (you can just see a CSX SD50 which was stopped at the signal on an empty grain train)

The station is still a MARC stop (foreground tracks) but the building seems to be in use by CSX for maintainence crews.

It's still a cool looking station though! :D

[Alan]

Here is my local station

http://www.holidaypics.0catch.com/station.jpg

[Peirce]

Great pictures, folks. Keep 'em coming. There are lots more parts of the world to be heard from. The variety of styles and size is amazing.

[Hytec]

Wow Alan, I'm glad you said it was a station. Initially I assumed it was your Manor House :D

On the more serious - why is it such an elaborate design? Was (is) it a major junction, or for regional management, or .... ?

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[Alan]

Hank, it was quite a large junction some time ago. Lines radiated to five routes, and there were lots of sidings for freight transfer, coal yards, goods sheds, a resident shunting (switching) locomotive, turntable, small engine shed, about 7 or 8 platforms, 5 (I think) signal boxes (switch towers), etc. A lot of trains passed through Spalding, but now we have one short passenger train each way per hour :(

There is a plan to increase traffic, and run up to eight freight trains per hour, as a relief route to the east coast main line. smile.gif

The station is elaborate because . . . well, they all were in the days when it was built smile.gif (19th Century). It was built by the Great Northern railway, in yellow brick as were all their structures.

[eddelozier]

Here was a great looking train station located in Toledo, Spain. Stopped here during vacation in 1999 on a Renfe line south from Madrid.

http://www.deloziers.com/trains/spainsta.jpg

...Eddie

[Peirce]

Here is the interior of a former station in Paris, France. Now the D'Orsay Museum, specializing in impressionist art, it still has the feeling of a grand railroad station.

http://images2.fotki.com/v2/photos/4/41513/85047/006_ONCE_A_RAILROAD_STATIO-vi.jpg

[ 23. June 2003, 00:31: Message edited by: Peirce ]

[Johnny Trains]

HERE'S A BIT OF GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL IN NYC.

http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/HalfLifeMapping/gctnyny.htm

[Johnny Trains]

CAN'T LEAVE OUT THE NEIGHBORS ACROSS THE RIVER.

http://lackawanna.hypermart.net/page15.htm

[LadySunshine]

Here are two pictures of the depot my Grandfather worked at in North Dakota:

http://www.geocities.com/ndsrm/MVC-040F.JPG
http://www.geocities.com/ndsrm/MVC-043F.JPG

A Very Proud Granddaugher smile.gif

[Johnny Trains]

LS, what years are we talking about your grandfather working there?
I'm trying to imagine what it was like back in the 20's or 30's.
Nice old depot.
Thanks for the link.

[LadySunshine]

Johnny, he worked there in the 40's, he retired in 1950 and died in 1954.

[Hytec]

Barb, I tried to link to your pages and was told that the pages were unavailable. :(

[LadySunshine]

Hank check your mail I sent them to you.

smile.gif

[Peirce]

Here's one for you modelers who are looking for a rural station from the mid to late 1800s.

This station still stands in Gaylordsville, CT, along the Housatonic RR. It was built as a hotel as well as a station.

This view is of the side away from the track. It sure has the look of a hotel from this side.

http://images.fotki.com/v4/photos/4/41513/120898/photofile-vi.jpg

Here is the trackside view. The track is visible in the lower-left corner of this picture. It is still in use, but the about only traffic is an occassional short freight.

http://images.fotki.com/v5/photos/4/41513/120898/1-vi.jpg

[Peirce]

There were several stations in Bessemer, Alabama. The best preserved is this one, which is now the city's museum. To the right of the fence, is a very active NS set of tracks, averaging about one freight per hour and two Amtrak passenger trains a day.

http://images.fotki.com/v3/photos/4/41513/120898/bessemersta2-vi.jpg

[BoxcabE50]

Originally posted by Peirce:
This station still stands in Gaylordsville, CT, along the Housatonic RR. It was built as a hotel as well as a station.I love depots! graemlins/clappy.gif

Looks like there is also a preserved "comfort" station standing in the background!

graemlins/097.gif

BoxcabE50

[Peirce]

Gulf, Mobile & Ohio station in Mobile, AL. When I shot this picture last April, they were just starting a major restoration project, although the outside looks pretty good. I am not sure what they are going to do with the inside. I had heard the possibility of a city museum, but also heard it would be offices.

http://images.fotki.com/v8/photos/4/41513/120898/gmostationmobile-vi.jpg

[ajy6b]

http://groups.msn.com/TheGRRModelRR/photoalbum1.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=7

Here is an old station about an hour from my house. I got a good old and new shot of two stations in my hometown. I just have to find them and post.

[watash]

In Arkansas there are some really small stations. Here is the D.K.&S. Station at Searcy, Arkansas, that I worked out of. It still stands, but is now a part of the car training facility of the UP (I think).

http://members.surfbest.net/watash@surfbest.net/watashftp/dks.jpg

[BoxcabE50]

Watash-

Am curious- Do you have a any historical background on the Doniphan, Kensett & Searcy? Until seeing this photo, all that I'd ever heard was the RR name.

:D

BoxcabE50

[Peirce]

I am bringing this thread to the top of the list to assist in answering a question in the Inspection Pit. In doing so, I noticed a couple of those infamous red "X" images. If the pictures are still available can the owners please fix the links? graemlins/notworthy.gif

[ 16. June 2003, 12:24: Message edited by: Peirce ]

[Martyn Read]

Ah, mine were old Photopoint ones, I should have those on a disk somewhere, I'll work on 'em...

[Peirce]

I can understand that problem. I am an ex-photopoint member, too. I was very lucky to have ordered a back-up CD just two weeks before they closed down.

[Peirce]

Johnny Trains sent this to me for posting. Hoboken Terminal.
http://images3.fotki.com/v28/photos/4/41513/84588/HobokenStation-vi.jpg

This photo was taken June 15, 2003. I especially like the capture of the railroad name at the top of the facade--LAKAWANNA R.R.

[ 21. June 2003, 13:44: Message edited by: Peirce ]

[Johnny Trains]

Hey Peirce, that station in Gaylordsville, Ct. reminds me of something my wife and I saw many years ago.

We had rented a motel room for a couple of nights up in Hancock, NY. during the fall foliage season. It was a hunter's motel with maybe 9 rooms altogether. We went out exploring, and saw a sign for a place called Lordsville. We made the right turn heading that way. Our narrow road turned into a dirt road through absolute wilderness!

After driving several scary miles, the first thing we saw was a big white building on our right side. Up in one of the windows was a Christmas tree, and a female mannequin all dressed up. It was strange!

We had come upon an almost identical railroad hotel just like the one you posted! It was just feet away from an (active??) railroad track! This was deep in the forest!!!!

On the porch was a mix of a dozen people or so, sitting in rocking chairs! This was not quaint! It was a scene right out of Deliverance, including the rushing stream right at the front of the hotel! Those people were watching us! It was REALLY secluded there!!!! This hotel had seen better days too!!!!!!!! We turned around and flew back across that dirt road and didn't stop until we got back to our motel! The hair on the back of my neck was standing up for hours!

That night, maybe around 3 in the morning, our room began to shake like there was an earthquake!!!!!! It was totally freaked out!!!!!!!! There was tremendous noise!!!!!! We couldn't hear each other yelling what the hell is that!

It took a few groggy seconds to realize a freight train was going by!!!!!!!!!! And in the morning I found that the tracks weren't much more than 100 feet below our room!!!!!!

We figured that was the last time we would stay in Hancock!!!!!!!! tongue.gif

[Peirce]

Interesting experience, and strange. I wonder what we would have done today. We probably would have tried to get some pictures. That thought conjurs up the image of getting the film back and there is the building but no people. graemlins/headscratch.gif graemlins/confused.gif

:mad: graemlins/Boo.gif

[Mike C]

Thanks Pierce. Haven't seen whjat I'm looking for yet, but I'm still looking. Seems like the dreded red X took some lives again! :D ...Mike

[Peirce]

My links in this thread have been refreshed. Let me know if I missed any.

[Johnny Trains]

I've thought about that place for years and really want to go back there sometime.

It did look haunted until I saw live faces and then it became DELIVERENCE! tongue.gif

[signalguy]

Hey Johnny, the area between Narrowsburg and Deposit, which includes Hancock, is the favorite home of the copperhead snakes. I inspected the area on the EL and they love to lay along the rails and will strike at anything that moves so if you railfan there be careful.

[Johnny Trains]

Gil, did you ever hear of an old railroad hotel in Lordsville?
It looked (believe me it was a quick look I had!) like the one Peirce posted. Wish I could find out more about it! It was surely a hotel at one time, and it's right next to the tracks.

That is a very secluded area there. I don't doubt that snakes are all over the place!

[UNION_PACIFIC_STEVE]

here is my local station, redbank.

http://qroti.com/southeast/explore/stations/119.jpg
not my photo, i got it from this site, which has details of all queensland rail stations. http://qroti.com/placeinfo/qld/rail/redbank/

[Johnny Trains]

Nice station, Steve!

Except for the overhead wiring, it could pass for a station anywhere here in the US.

Why I thought it might be on the "New Joisey Transit", or "Lawn-kah Island Railroad".