Depot End: (
Satellite, 39 photos)
Freight House End: (
Satellite)
This is the east end of the building; it looks like a depot.
It appears that the brewery now makes use of the original waiting room.
This is probably more than enough seating for today's train passengers.
This is the west end; it looks like a freight house. It has the typical two-story office building on one end of a one-story freight handling part.
Stu Nicholson
posted two photos with the comment:
The art-deco style New York Central station and nearby (and very large) freighthouse at Erie, Pennsylvania. Amtrak's "Lake Shore Limited" stops here once a day east and west bound. The station was saved and restored by a local architect whose company occupies the top floors while Amtrak, a coffee shop and a microbrewery.
The freighthouse is (I believe) only partly occupied and would be a great candidate for adaptive redevelopment.
Lance Erickson: Bessemer and Lake Erie had a small station too nearby.
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Paul Osciak
posted three photos with the comment: "1927 Union Station, Erie, PA. Now houses a tiny Amtrak station, businesses and a very good restaurant."
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LogisticsPlus
Logistics Plus bought the then vacant building in 2003 and renovated it to be its global headquarters.
It "occupies the second and third floors of the building and leases sections to other local businesses."
When built, NYC used it for through trains and Pennsy used it to terminate trains that came from Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, Philadelphia & Washington. B&LE and Nickel Plate used other depots. "The Bessemer depot was located at 12th, and Sassafras Streets, and the Nickel Plate Depot was located at 19th and Holland Streets."
NS now owns Track 4 through the station so that it could move the N&W/Nickel Plate route from 19th Street to the elevated rail corridor through town. |
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| 1957/1959 Erie North and South Quads @ 24,000 |
Not only was the original Nickel Plate route at grade level, but there was also not enough room for a railroad and two lanes of traffic.
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Jackson-Township historical preservation posted
The Union Depot Railroad Station was the first railroad station in Erie and was established in 1851, but it was soon replaced with a Romanesque-Revival style Union Depot that was built around 1865 at 14th Street between Peach and Sassafras Streets. Four railroads provided service: the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad and the Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad, which became parts of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR); and the Buffalo and Erie Railroad and the Cleveland and Erie Railroad, which became part of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway and eventually a part of the New York Central Railroad (NYC). In its heyday, the station served nearly 52 passenger trains a day. |
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