Abandoned/NYNH&H Westchester Avenue Station

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Street View, Apr 2026

Street View, Oct 2022

David Herszenson, Dec 2023

Monica Matos, Jul 2022

Nathan Blake posted 11 photos with the comment:

Context: The Abandoned Westchester Avenue Railroad Station

Information: The abandoned Westchester Avenue station is a former railroad station located in the Longwood section of the South Bronx, near Westchester Avenue and Sheridan Boulevard. Built in 1908, the station was designed by prominent architect Cass Gilbert, who later used similar decorative terra-cotta details in his design for the Woolworth Building. Passenger service ended in 1937, and the station has remained abandoned ever since, gradually deteriorating into a severely damaged ruin.

The structure is unusual because part of it is suspended above Amtrak’s busy Northeast Corridor. The taller entrance hall stands on solid ground west of the tracks, while the shorter waiting-room section extends over the railroad on steel beams. Staircases once led from the station down to low-level platforms beside the tracks, but those stairs and platforms were removed many years ago.

The station’s exterior still contains colorful glazed terra-cotta ornamentation, including a caduceus near the roofline with the letters “NYH.” This likely refers to the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, which built the station, although the same symbol was also used by the New York, Westchester and Boston Railway, which also served the location. By 2009, the building was considered dangerously unstable. Of Cass Gilbert’s other surviving Bronx stations, Bartow was also abandoned, while Morris Park and Hunts Point were later reused for other purposes.

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Bernie Bierman commented on Nathan's post
The same location many years ago.

Marietta, OK: Decrepit/Santa Fe Depot

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According to the 2001 SPV Map, this route is now used by BNSF, UP and Amtrak.

Street View, Feb 2026

Ken Madison posted three photos with the comment:

Train Depot Tuesday, 

3/24/26, Tuesday, Marietta OK 

While returning from visiting relatives in Texas I took the Interstate 35 route so I could stop at few train depots along the way

One of my stops was the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe (GC&SF) Depot built in 1913 in Marietta, OK.

Though there were plans to possibly rehabilitate the depot it appears there has not been any progress to begin restoration.

Hopefully the depot will be restored soon.

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This topo map accurately depicts the location of the depot.

1967/71 Marietta East Quad @ 24,000

Dunkirk, IN: Museum/Pennsy (Panhandle) Depot & Freight House and Glass Plant

Depot: (Satellite)

Freight: (Satellite, I could not find it.)

Plant: (Satellite)

Street View, Oct 2024

The museum has a lot of sports stuff.

Photo, Oct 2025

4 of 7 photos posted by Mark Teer with the comment: "Dunkirk Indiana’s restored passenger station and freight station."

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Ardagh Dunkirk Glass Plant

While looking for the freight house, I found this plant. Anything today that still has a smokestack is worth noting.

Street View, Oct 2024

The plant makes glass bottles.

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I wonder if these bottles in the museum were made locally.

Photo, Oct 2025

Dunkirk is between Hartford City and Redkey on this Pennsy Panhandle map.

Brian A Morgan posted via Dennis DeBruler

Much of  Panhandle has been abandoned, but NS kept the track to Dunkirk.

National Rail Network Map

I'm sure the glass plant is why the route to Dunkirk has been maintained. I wonder what the hoppers hold. I'm guessing sand.

Satellite

This is the second time in two days that I have found a "smokestack industry." The second was the paper mill in Grand Rapids, MN.

Grand Rapids, MN: (Church+Visitor Center)/GN Depot, Blandin Paper Mill, Feed Mill and BNSF Railyard

Depot: (Satellite)

Paper Mill: (Satellite)

Feed Mill: (Satellite)

BNSF Yard Office: (Satellite)

The freight handling part was the West Cohasset Chapel.

Street View, Sep 2024

The depot is now the Visitor Center.

Street View, Sep 2024

They honor their railroad heritage by preserving the train order semaphore.

Street View, Aug 2025

They are serious about tourists because they sell ice cream and candy.

Laura Venema, Aug 2017

8 of 21 photos posted by Randi Relander with the comment: "Random photos from by the old feed mill in Grand Rapids, MN this weekend. July 31, 2026."

Adam Jones: They are going tearing down the old feed mill.

Matthew Davis: Try tent camping at the Pokegama Dam canoe/walk in site right by the tracks. It’s like an earthquake simulator if a train goes by.

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[This is the second time in two days that I have found a "smokestack industry." The first was the glass plant in Dunkirk, IN.]

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[Once again, BNSF has an old locomotive painted in the swish H1 livery to handle the local switching.]

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[I wonder which chemical needs a sway back tank car and why. This is probably a rather special chemical for the paper mill. Note the sprinkler in the right background keeping the logs wet.]

They have a lot of logs.

Street View, Sep 2023

Going further down 3rd Street, we confirm that the "orange blob" in the left side of the above view is the H1 locomotive.

Street View, Jun 2012

It looks like it is actively moving a tank car in this view.

Street View, Sep 2023

Andrey Gegedosh, Jun 2017

We can see just a small fraction of the paper mill from street views.

Satellite

While determining that the feed mill was served by the Great Northern railroad, I noticed the depot that was marked on this map. I'm glad I checked it out because it is extant.

1953/55 Grand Rapids Quad @ 24,000

The paper mill also built a dam on the Mississippi River that tamed the namesake of this town, the 30' (9.1m) drop of the Grand Rapids.

Street View, Sep 2024 via Dennis DeBruler

The route through Grand Rapids is owned by BNSF, but CPKC has trackage rights on it.

National Rail Network Map