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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| 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 |
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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 presrved 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 maintence 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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| Satellite |
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