Former Santa Fe depot and office building, Galveston, Texas, now Center for Transportation and Commerce aka Railroad Museum. Located at head of The Strand, preserved Victorian era downtown business street. 1982 photo, still looks about the same. Subject of my "soon-to-be-built" model railroad. (see layout planning)
Here are some buildings I like in San Antonio, Texas. The first is he Central Supply area. It is several buildings that face the sidewalk on one side and a railroad spur on the back. The interesting part is that the spur is a very short, sharp curve. The buildings you see here are all separate busineses next to each other built to fit the curve in the track. Trucks now serve the businesses but the tracks are still in place. - This is the East Yard freight car shop. Just an interesting structure. The larger part is wooden; the other is corrugated metal. Hot in the summer and cold in the winter! I don't know why the wind sock was there. I never saw a helicopter or anything. -
It's possible that it is the largest open area nearby. They could use that area for the "Life Flight" Helicopter. They use an area by our Cities Watertanks here for that. Nice "city gritty" shots by the way.
From the Denver Public Library View of Union Station, Denver, Colorado; shows a stone building with clock tower, a cobbled street with buggies, automobiles, a wagon of cream cans, pedestrians, trees, and lawn. Sign reads: "The Littleton Creamery Company" (later Beatrice Creamery). 1910? Photographer: Beam, George L. (George Lytle), 1868-1935.
From the Denver Public Library View of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad depot, Littleton, Colorado, shows the weathered station with peeling paint and broken windows. Railroad tracks are behind the station. Later renovated and used by the Depot Art Center. Photographer: Sibert, E. H. - September 3, 1972. Today
Alexandria, VA {100 Year's of Service} n the late 1840s, the City of Alexandria invested in at least five major railroad projects, to link the city with other commercial centers and better compete with Baltimore as a regional industrial and trade center. The numerous competing lines resulted in a mishmash of rails and yards running through the city amidst various railroad mergers and failures. In 1901, the railroads serving the region, led by the Pennsylvania Railroad, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, and Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, formed the Richmond-Washington Company to manage traffic between Richmond, Virginia and Washington and build a consolidated railyard, Potomac Yard. The company's plans included construction of a new passenger terminal west of the city, in what was then part of Arlington County—Alexandria did not annex the land until 1915. Alexandria Union Station was opened on September 15, 1905, and served passenger trains of the C&O, Washington Southern Railway, and Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad until 1971, when ownership of the station was assumed by Amtrak and the rails by CSX Transportation. The City of Alexandria took ownership of the station to protect its historic value in 2001.
