Hauntingly Abandoned spots

Pretty cool pictures.

thank you for sharing.

I went in Detroit and the first thing I did was to visit the Lenox hotel, I mean the rests of what was Lenox Hotel and the RR depot.

AG.

Detroit station was used by Amtrak up until the the early 80's.  The main waiting area was still intact.  There was even direct service from Detroit to NYC via Canada and the old railroad tunnel under the Detroit River.  The terminal (and Hudson's) were turned over to companies that were supposed to make repairs/safe the buildings.  Instead, they stripped them of anything of value and left them as ruins.  No one was ever held accountable for the apparently officially blessed vandalism.  The terminal now serves as a moving backdrop for urban decay.

The Buffalo Terminal, in New York, also underwent a serious peiod of being stripped of anything with value, and being vandalized. This terminal is now under the control of a preservation group. Here is their web site: Buffalo Terminal

Wow what a fall from grace at the Buffalo terminal

WAY COOL

WOULD LOVE TO SEE THE CITY HALL STATION

STEVE

Steve

The NY City Transit Museum runs tours of the station twice a year.  Next one I would guess is april.  The Museum's website lists these under the tours section.  Or just take any of the southbound IRT trains that end at Brooklyn Bridge and stay on the train.  It goes right through City Hall to reverse

Buffalo terminal was awesome.  When I took the "Wolverine" from Detroit to NYC, we stopped there for a crew change.   That was the first stop after leaving Detroit.  The current Lake Shore Limited blows by what's left of the old terminal.  Current station in Buffalo are the typical Amtrak cheese box and the "downtown" terminal that makes the cheese box look good.  It reminded me more of a bus shelter than a train station.  I'm glad to see there is a group trying to preserver what's left.  That tower was impressive (technically it still is).  What left of the old "train shed" had been turned into a storage yard for construction equipment.  Very attractive!

Ben thanks for sharing the pictures.

Great pictures Ben, thanks for this excellent topic!

Thanks for sharing Ben.

Thank you for sharing Ben.

I really like the NYC station as it look like it was kept in nice shape for future use compared to the others that were just left to "die".

Here are a few that some here will recognize.

The first is Thurmond, WV.

 Looking North and South after a light snow. It was very quiet here.

 Hard to believe the yellow station in the background is a station stop on the Amtrak Cardinal Between Chicago and Washington?.

I understand in summer the town is 'hoppin.

The platform below is from Danville, IL on the old Chicago & Eastern Illinois mainline. My mother used this very platform to embark on her trips to Chicago. I did not know parts of the platform were still there unitl I did a quick check of GoogleMaps. The tracks are to the right in this photo. Again, hard to believe that at one time, this was the "big" station in the area and was used by many people. Now, just a cement hulk standing only to be seen in the winter months as in the spring, summer and fall the growth covers the platform.

We took a trip to Michigan this past summer and I made a point to stop and see the Detroit station.  There were a few trucks inside the fence, not sure what work is being done - I doubt there is anything left to salvage.

A few miles down the road in Dearborn a new station is going up.

Don

wow , Great pictures guys...

I love the old buildings....

I read that along with the size of the City Hall Station, they don't want to use it because the doors to the cars are centered and the platform would create a gap for someone's foot to slip through.  Thanks for sharing. 

That is not really true  South Ferry station and 14 st station have the same curve in the station.  South Ferry might even be sharper.  They have these things called gap fillers   Its a small moving platform that moves out to the train when it stops

In the days of railroading they built buildings to last forever and they never thought there would be a better form of travel. Planes came and people thought faster was better.  Now with lines at security checkpoints, planes are not that fast anymore.  So does this mean that in 50 years people will be talking about airports like this?  We will be teleporting, so we will not need planes.

Thurmond, W. Va., and Hinton, W. Va. are two railroad towns worth a visit.  Thurmond

is a tiny ghost town right on the tracks....a drunk stepping out of a saloon, could
fall right on the track...just a sidewalk buildings and track.  Thurmond is reported to

have hosted a 24 hour poker game that went on for over a decade.  I was lucky to

get there before and after it bacame a National Park site.  The station has been

restored, or, at least, refurbished.  You only can drive to Thurmond across a one

lane bridge shared with a branch railline.  It is right on the New River, famous for

the New River Gorge and for the C&O line with the old stations that had square or octagonal towers on their roofs for a former signal system. (never have figured out

why nobody has offered a kit of one of those stations)  Like Cass, it is a railroad site to visit in W. Va. 

Looking at some pics of Thurmond WV I found this one   What exactly is coming down the track?

That Domino Sugar plant in Brooklyn is adjacent to the Pfizer Pharmaceutical docks.  My Dad was Plant Manager there, and we had access to watch Op Sail and other water-borne events.  I remember watching President Reagan sail past on the "Sequoia" on his way to re-light the Statue of Liberty in 1986. 

The thing I most remember was the unloading of the raw-sugar from a freighter at the Domino dock.  It looks just like dirt!

Jon

Outstanding but sobering photography!!!