Gouverneur, NY: NYC Depot and Freight House

Depot: (Satellite)

Freight: (Satellite)

Tim Mayers posted two photos with the comment:

Gouverneur, NY -

A postcard that was canceled in 1936 of the New York Central Railroad train station in Gouverneur, NY,. Compared to a picture I took yesterday, Wednesday July 15th,  2026 of the same train station in Gouverneur NY. It's amazing that the station still exists with the state of disrepair that it's in.— with Doug Vensel.

Tricia Bullock Bush: Have you seen my post about saving this? We need people that want to work on it. It can be saved!

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Street View, Jun 2025

While looking for the depot, I found the freight house.

Street View, Jun 2025

1956/58 Gouverneur Quad @ 24,000

This route is now owned by CSX.

National Rail Network Map

Vermilion, OH: Preserved/NYC Depot

(Satellite)

Street View, Sep 2025

I.e. Xam posted

Dennis DeBruler commented on the above post
NYC, https://maps.app.goo.gl/VvZJQpvBPD42e4Hj9 [1959/60 Vermilion East Quad @ 24,000]

Point Pleasant, WV: B&O Depot

(Satellite)

I picked this older view because it had less vegetation in the way.

Street View, Sep 2013

This is the most recent view.

Street View, Aug 2025

I've come to think of "activist investor" as a euphemism for robber baron. And this depot is another demonstration that management doesn't like "wasting" money on maintenance. CSX has no pride.

Tucker McLaughlin, Aug 2025

Doug Bess posted three photos with the comment: "More photos of the B&O District Run 1 with B&O #9245. Comments on captions."

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9245 shoving cut of cars up to the NYC interchange.

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9245 running past the switch to the NYC interchange.
[The stairs and door in this photo is consistent with Tucker's photo above. So back in the B&O days, it had a nice paint job.]
Doug Bess posted
B&O District Run 1 with B&O caboose C1927 at Point Pleasant, WV. I took this photo in 1967.
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9245 behind Point Pleasant depot after finishing up a day's work.

Doug Bess commented on his post about the caboose
Here is a photo I took in 2015 at about the same location as the one I took in 1967.

Karl Scheich commented on Doug's post about the caboose
Here’s a recent photo from 2020, I worked out of Parkersburg WV as a CSX Carman, we would come here to repair freight cars with our line of road truck.

Doug's reference to NYC tracks made me wonder about what NYC was doing this far south. According to the 2005 SPV Map, it was two NYC subsidiaries. It was Toledo & Ohio Central (TOC) to the West, and the Kanawaha & Michigan (K&M) to the East. The bridge across the Ohio River was owned by both TOC and K&M. The C&O route that TOC joins was the Hocking Valley (HV). And according to the 2005 SPV Map, the NYC route is now owned by NS. (Of course, the C&O/HV and B&O routes are now owned by CSX.)

1958/60 Gallipolis Quad @ 24,000

I've noticed that this map doesn't do a good job of showing a route that is shared by NS and CSX. Today, it is NS that uses the HV route north of Point Pleasant.

National Rail Network Map

Columbus, OH: B&O (GN) (CP Camp) Junction Tower: B&O vs. Pennsy vs. NYC vs. Big Four

(Satellite)

The 2005 SPV Map labels this junction CP Camp.   

Darren Reynolds posted four images with the comment:

B&Os "GN" tower (Columbus)

West Broad St.,Columbus, Ohio

This tower is no longer standing

Tim Shanahan shared

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A lot of tracks have been removed to make rooom for three highways through this area.

1955/56 West Columbus Quad @ 24,000

The tower was west of the B&O track and just south of McKinley Ave.

Mar 1, 1953 @ 18,000; AR1XM0000010170

The B&O route to the south is now owned by IORY. This map shows the IORY terminating at Sullivant Ave. But a satellite map shows the tracks continue north and now join the NS/Pennsy tracks.

National Rail Network Map

Palmer, MA: Union Station: CSX/NYC/Boston & Albany and NECR/Central Vermont

(Satellite)

NECR = New England Central Railroad

Jim MacKey posted six photos with the comment:

Union Station is a historic former railroad station located in downtown Palmer, Massachusetts. The building, which was designed by American architect H. H. Richardson, opened in June 1884 to consolidate two separate stations nearby.[1] The grounds of the station were originally designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.[3]

It is located at the junction of the Boston and Albany Railroad (later part of the New York Central Railroad, and now the CSX Boston Subdivision)

General information

Location 28 Depot Street,

Palmer, Massachusetts

Coordinates 42°9′20″N 72°19′47″W

Construction

Architect Henry Hobson Richardson; W.N. Flynt & Company

Architectural style Romanesque

History

Opened June 1884

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When I saw locomotives and freight cars parked on the former Central Vermont Tracks, I knew I should look for the shortline that now operates the CV route. It is New England Central Railroad (NECR).

gwrr

Sandusky, OH: Bay Junction (BJ): NS/NYC+A/NKP/LE&W+A/Big Four vs. NS/Pennsy/TC&O and (BO): NS/NYC vs. A/B&O Towers

BJ: (Satellite)

BO: (Satellite, the B&O used to go north/south through the Columbus Ave. crossing.)

A = Abandoned

TC&O = ?

Darren Reynolds posted two images with the comment:

Conrails (EX-NYC) 

"BJ" tower (Bay Jct.)

Sandusky, Ohio 

This tower is no longer standing

Tim Shanahan shared

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The 2005 SPV Map labels the track along the lakefront as LE&W. Obviously, Pennsy snarfed up the TC&O route.

1959/60 Sandusky Quad @ 24,000

The LE&W used to go straight through the BJ Junction, loop around the lakefront and then south down to the BO Junction. Note that Pennsy built their dock after 1904, maybe even after 1941.

1904/41 Sandusky Quad @ 62,500

This was the Lake Erie part of the LE&W Railroad.

Map via NKPHTS via Dennis DeBruler

Medina, NY: Erie and Barge Canals and NYC Depot & Museum/Freight House

Canal: (Satellite, the Barge Canal followed the Erie Canal's route through this town.)

Depot: (Satellite)

Museum/Freight House: (Satellite)

Erie Canal Overview

The Medina Culvert is about a couple miles east of here.

Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor posted

The relatively flat lands and river valleys that became the canal route were equally well suited to farming in New York. Grain, apples, hops, celery, root crops, and specialty products like peppermint oil manufactured from mint were among the top crops produced and shipped along the canal in the 1800s.

Though agricultural products are no longer transported on the canal, farming continues to shape the landscape, economy, and local flavor of the canalway corridor.

📸: Medina Apple Yard

The depot is on the left and the museum/freight house is on the right.

Street View, Aug 2025

Unlike many towns, the Barge Canal used the route of the Erie Canal through town.

1897/97 Medina Quad @ 62,500

Craig Lacy posted
Canal expansion at the Big Bend in Medina.

Craig Lacy posted
One of the "Fruit Express" boats is docked in Medina's basin.  White's Hotel with its 70 foot high clock tower located on North Main Street is in the background. The hotel burned in 1923.

Craig Lacy posted
One of the apple yards on Main Street in Medina.  A fully loaded barge on the left.  Medina was in the heart of the "Million Dollar Fruit Belt"
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Craig Lacy posted
A barge loaded with Medina sandstone heads west out of Medina.  During repairs to the break wall in Buffalo, 1000 of tons of Medina sandstone were blasted from the quarries in Hulberton, NY for that purpose reaffirming the strength and durability of the famed stone.

Weston Cross: Any idea what year? Near as I know, the last time sandstone was used for breakwater repairs was in the late 80s for the Buffalo North Breakwater repairs when the center section of that structure was blown out during a storm in 1986.

Craig Lacy: Weston Cross Weston, this photo was in my 1976 file.

Brent Beyer shared with the comment: "There might still be some of it out there."

Brian R. Wroblewski commented on Craig's post
They're loading limestone into barges in Lackawanna for the current round of breakwall repairs but this stuff came here by rail & was unloaded on the dock.

The museum has a big layout.

David Albone, Jul 2019

They also run excursion trains.

Isai Ortiz, Apr 2022

Since the layout is big, they can include some special exhibits.

Iorraine barber, Oct 2021

Including other forms of transportation.

Cathy Sinacola, Oct 2023

Sara Wickham, Oct 2022

Soon after I started this blog, I wanted a photo of a typewriter. It took me a while before I found a museum that had one. And this museum has more than the four that we see here.

David Albone, Jul 2019

They have a couple of first-generation diesel locomotives for their excursion trains.

Street View, Sep 2022

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