Very striking photo, thanks for sharing this.
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What a remarkably depressing photograph. I love it!
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Wow, you'd think that they'd try to reuse the station in the future.
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Awesome image, not just the decrepit unused terminal being bypassed by the modern (of sorts!) Amtrak train , but then the truck-based no-rail warehousing in the background which is part of the same larger story.
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BCT's biggest problem is its location. It's about 2 miles west of downtown Buffalo and in the middle of a marginal neighborhood. If BCT was in downtown Buffalo, I bet it would have been restored years ago for one use or another.
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Oops...BCT is about 2 miles EAST of downtown Buffalo.
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The story of passenger rail in America is all summed up in the picture. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks for all your great comments folks! Check out http://buffalocentralterminal.org to learn more about the terminal.
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I agree with all of these comments. It is hard to believe there was a wonderland of trains at one time. I rode through Buffalo on the NE States at midnight in 1959. We arrived just after the 20th Century Ltd. and Commodore Vanderbuilt. Awesome sight in the middle of the night.
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Just a great shot Adam! I bet sometime that station will be restored to a museum or something of the sort. Mike
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Beautiful terminal. Everytime I see a photo of this place now I remind myself of the recent episode of "Ghost Hunters" on the SciFi network. Got a view from inside of this beautiful place and got to see that it is chock full of ghosts. Very interesting if you ever get a chance to watch it.
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Great photo- you managed to tell a story in a single frame! Actually BCT is in far better shape the the Michigan Central Station in Detroit- it is beyond hope.
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Fascinating picture. I can vaguely remember arriving and leaving from BCT about 1967 when I rode the PRR from Philly to Buffalo. Wish I had taken some pix on that trip. More recently I passed by on Amtrak and it was an all too obviously fadded monument to the glory days of passenger railroading. Hopefully the restoration efforts will find some basis for success.
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