Favorite Stations?

Without reservation; my favorite station is the former PRR station in my hometown - Lewistown, PA.

Station is now owned by the PRRT&HS and dates back to 1849, making it the oldest surviving structure built by PRR.  

Curt

Note to moderators - photo is mine.

Also always a fan of this style Santa Fe station. This one between Amarillo and Pampa.

Mine is the Old Altoona Station WITH the canopy over the tracks!

@pennsynut posted:

 

This is a great site. I have spent hours looking through the inventory. I would like to model the McClure station in Snyder County. Do you think there is a copyright problem if I do that if I just base it from the photo? I estimate the exterior board width to be about 10 inches. Your thoughts invited.

I really don't know much about copyright infringement in terms of modeling. I think if you are just using it for your own layout then you should be fine. I believe it only becomes infringement if you start selling it.

Prr7688; Thanks for your reply.

I have three favorite stations. In this post I will take you to Pontiac, Michigan.  I like this station because it is only minutes from my train room via my F 150 or my bicycle.  I go here several times a week to do some rail-fanning and have lunch trackside.

This is the Amtrak Station at Pontiac, with my two grandsons, hanging out with grandpa.

Waiting for the locomotive to depart.

Loco #26 is on a siding awaiting a return trip to Chicago.

Siemens Charger is arriving from Chicago. Train #350 at about 3 PM.

One cool thing about rail-fanning at Pontiac is that this is a crew change station. Along with maintenance being done to the cars and locomotive. They also clean all the passenger cars. In this photo the conductor is walking from her office to the train.

This is the welcome sign for Amtrak Passengers.

Adjacent to the Amtrak Station is the CN Terminal.  There is all types of rail-fanning action. People and trains.

This yard has a turntable.

Yard locomotive.

This CN loco is taking automotive parts to Flint, Michigan.

Even the Union Pacific uses these rails.

Thanks for taking a look at one of my favorite stations and terminals. Hope to see you out rail-fanning. Gary 🚂

Hey Juniata_Guy - here's one for you:

From My Sister's Telegraphic - Jepsen

 Elizabeth Cogley of Lewistown, Pennsylvania, began to work for the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1855. She had been an operator for the Atlantic and Ohio Telegraph Company in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, and when the telegraph office at Lewistown was consolidated with the office of the Pennsylvanian Railroad in the winter of 1855-1856, she became the first known female telegrapher to work for a railroad.

  I've been to the Lewistown station several times myself - it's hard to believe I walked the same ground she did.  It's too bad there isn't a small plaque at the station to commemorate her achievement.

The one in my hometown from the Seaboard Air Line days.  Here's what it looked like early last century:

Here's what it looks like today:

I partially built a model in HO when I was into that scale, but never put windows in it. Got the actual blueprints from the city engineer!

@Robert S. Butler posted:

Hey Juniata_Guy - here's one for you:

From My Sister's Telegraphic - Jepsen

 Elizabeth Cogley of Lewistown, Pennsylvania, began to work for the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1855. She had been an operator for the Atlantic and Ohio Telegraph Company in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, and when the telegraph office at Lewistown was consolidated with the office of the Pennsylvanian Railroad in the winter of 1855-1856, she became the first known female telegrapher to work for a railroad.

  I've been to the Lewistown station several times myself - it's hard to believe I walked the same ground she did.  It's too bad there isn't a small plaque at the station to commemorate her achievement.

That’s neat Robert!  The PRRT&HS ought to note that - perhaps inside the old waiting room where they’ve assembled a bit of a museum.

Curt

LAUPT is in the mission style.  ATSF had some stations in a mission style.  ATSF was a railroad in LA Union.  Did the Santa Fe haveva lot of say in the construction of the station.

I have been thete twice.  The station does seem to fit the history of the town.

It was built as a backin.  The only shortcoming I can see.  But back then, nobody thought it would be used for commuter/shorthaul.

I think you can make a model of anything, for yourself.  No corporation can interfere with that.

Glacier Park  - still fascinating

There was a lady in Kansas selling off what l guessed was her husband's collection of reprinted B&W postcards of RR stations across the country.  She did not have a photo of the Southern RR Fisherville, Kentucky station l hung around as a kid, and l have never found a photo of it.  Torn down after l moved away.  I want a photo of that station!  I have screeched to a stop in tiny prairie towns to bounce out and photo a surviving station.  All RR stations should have been designated national historical sites since 1950.

@TexasSP posted:

The Southern Pacific Grand Central in Houston was an art-deco beauty.  It's a shame it was torn down.  I am also partial to the San Antonio Sunset Station which was more Spanish Mission style and also unfortunately torn down.  I did not post pictures due to copyright concerns however both can be searched easily.

The Sunset Station in San Antonio is still standing. As is the MP / IGN Depot.

The MKT mission style depot in San Antonio is the one that was torn down. 

Ricky