Amtrak: (3D Satellite, 817 photos) Opened Sep 23, 2002 [plaque]
Pump Station: (3D Satellite)
Albany is another town where land that served passenger trains was repurposed to serve the automobile. In this case, the platforms became a parking garage and the yard became part of an Interstate highway and a park. At least in this town the headhouse was saved.
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| Street View, Aug 2017 |
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| π₯π²πΊπ²πΊπ―π²πΏ πͺπ΅π²π»: π‘π²π ππ²πΏππ²π & π‘π²π π¬πΌπΏπΈ posted Albany Union Station (now part of the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering) • Albany, New York • 1906! John L Garcia shared |
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| New York Central System Historical Society posted Albany Station Platform 1927. NYCRR original negative, Western Reserves Historical Society Collection. Paul Jevert shared Albany Station 1927 |
Garrett Jach posted two photos with the comment: "Hello everyone I was attending an event in downtown Albany, NY and had to park in a parking garage I walked past this building thinking hmm this looks like a train station. Well i looked it up and it indeed was a New York Central station. last train was December 29th,1968. The station had different plans after that didn't come to pass like making it a museum or building apartments however instead became office space for different banks. Picture is from the parking garage that is next to the former station."
John Jauchler: Walk down a couple of blocks on your next visit and check out the SUNY administration building. It was once the headquarters for the Delaware & Hudson Railroad.
Peter Dillon: After the new Penn-Central Station was built in Rensselaer, NY ( across the Hudson River). Union Station in Albany was abandoned. At one point vandals posing as contractors stole the copper roof in broad daylight .
Finally a bank bought and restored it .
Mark Backhaus: The building sat abandoned from 1969 until about 1985, when it was restored to become Norstar Bank's headquarters (later Fleet Bank and Bank of America). Interesting to note is that, to accommodate a data center, the former ground level lobby was raised up one floor, including all the original interior ironwork. Compare old photos to those after the restoration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Station_(Albany,_New_York)
Leo Hilton: I believe I read somewhere that at its peak there were 125 trains a day going in and out of that station.π
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| 1953 Albany and Troy South Quads @ 24,000 |
The southern bridge was removed because it handled passenger trains to the depot. The northern bridge allowed freight trains to bypass the depot, and now it handles the Amtrak trains. Note the roundhouse just south of the east end of the suthern bridge. And we can see the foundation of a roundhouse just south of the east end of the northern bridge.
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| EarthExplorer: Apr 16, 1952 @ 24,000; AR1ZC3760110524 |
The new Amtrak station looks more like a depot than am Amshack.
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| Street View, Oct 2021 |
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| Street View, Oct 2019 |
I had noticed that a brewery has preserved a pump station building.
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| Street View, Jun 2011 |
The original pumps were probably long gone when the brewery aquired the building, and it is not worth saving newer pumps. But it does look like they saved the overhead crane.
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| Photo, Apr 2011 |
When I noticed the "National Railraod Passenger Corp" label near the botom of this map, I remembered that is the official name for Amtrak. I looked on a topo map to determine that both this route, and the adjacent CSX route, used to be NYC. The same day I discovered this Amtrak owned route, I had researched a depot in Niles, MI, which is also on a route that is now owned by Amtrak.
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| USGS |
And Amtrak has a maintenance facility just before their route crosses the bridge. Note that the diesel fuel tanks now use the land that had been used for a roundhouse.
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