This topic got burried in the long original thread, so I am breaking it out here with a fresh start. I know there are many examples, both grand and humble, new and old, that you probably have in your files. Also, don't hesitate using pictures you used already in the long thread. I will start off with a relatively new, but humble station. This is the Metro North station in Danbury, Connecticut. [ 23. June 2003, 00:24: Message edited by: Peirce ]
To quote Monty Python, "And now for something completly different." At least at the opposite end of the scale from the previous picture. This is both old and grand. Here is a night shot of the front of the Lakawanna Station in Scranton, PA. It has been converted into a hotel. [ 23. June 2003, 00:26: Message edited by: Peirce ]
A classic art deco Paris Metro entrance. This is the last one to still have the glass over the stairs. This in Montmartre. [ 23. June 2003, 00:28: Message edited by: Peirce ]
Nice stations Pierce. I wish I had some original photos of the Chatham, NY (B&A/NYC-Harlem Div) and the Bedford Hills, NY (NYC-Harlem Div) stations. They both were built of field stone and quite charming. A side note - I believe the Chatham station was designed by my Grandfather in the late 1800's.
This is the depot at Northeast PA, which is now a really cool little museum, they also had some cool stuff there, like a South Shore Little Joe, a NYC U25B and some nice old reefers, passenger cars (including a former Empire Builder car you can see in the background) To cap it off the CSX & NS main lines pass in front of the building (to the right in the pic) so you get all the main line action too. I can reccomend!
This is the station at Point of Rocks MD, a really great train watching place! It's the junction where the CSX main line from the West splits to go to Baltimore or Washington DC. In the pic the DC lines are in the foreground & the Baltimore lines go the other side of the building (you can just see a CSX SD50 which was stopped at the signal on an empty grain train) The station is still a MARC stop (foreground tracks) but the building seems to be in use by CSX for maintainence crews. It's still a cool looking station though!
Great pictures, folks. Keep 'em coming. There are lots more parts of the world to be heard from. The variety of styles and size is amazing.
Wow Alan, I'm glad you said it was a station. Initially I assumed it was your Manor House On the more serious - why is it such an elaborate design? Was (is) it a major junction, or for regional management, or .... ? [ 24 October 2001: Message edited by: Hank Coolidge ]</p>
Hank, it was quite a large junction some time ago. Lines radiated to five routes, and there were lots of sidings for freight transfer, coal yards, goods sheds, a resident shunting (switching) locomotive, turntable, small engine shed, about 7 or 8 platforms, 5 (I think) signal boxes (switch towers), etc. A lot of trains passed through Spalding, but now we have one short passenger train each way per hour There is a plan to increase traffic, and run up to eight freight trains per hour, as a relief route to the east coast main line. The station is elaborate because . . . well, they all were in the days when it was built (19th Century). It was built by the Great Northern railway, in yellow brick as were all their structures.
Here was a great looking train station located in Toledo, Spain. Stopped here during vacation in 1999 on a Renfe line south from Madrid. ...Eddie
Here is the interior of a former station in Paris, France. Now the D'Orsay Museum, specializing in impressionist art, it still has the feeling of a grand railroad station. [ 23. June 2003, 00:31: Message edited by: Peirce ]
HERE'S A BIT OF GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL IN NYC. http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/HalfLifeMapping/gctnyny.htm
Here are two pictures of the depot my Grandfather worked at in North Dakota: http://www.geocities.com/ndsrm/MVC-040F.JPG http://www.geocities.com/ndsrm/MVC-043F.JPG A Very Proud Granddaugher
LS, what years are we talking about your grandfather working there? I'm trying to imagine what it was like back in the 20's or 30's. Nice old depot. Thanks for the link.
Here's one for you modelers who are looking for a rural station from the mid to late 1800s. This station still stands in Gaylordsville, CT, along the Housatonic RR. It was built as a hotel as well as a station. This view is of the side away from the track. It sure has the look of a hotel from this side. Here is the trackside view. The track is visible in the lower-left corner of this picture. It is still in use, but the about only traffic is an occassional short freight.
