Erie Railroad Depot (Rochester, New York)
ROCHESTER | |||||||||||
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 Erie Railroad Depot, 1908 | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | between the Genesee River and Exchange Street on the south side of Court St., Rochester, New York U.S. | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 43°09′11″N 77°36′37″W / 43.1530°N 77.6102°W | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Erie Railroad | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 1887[1] | ||||||||||
| Closed | 1941 (demolished 1947) | ||||||||||
| Electrified | 1907[2] | ||||||||||
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Erie Railroad Depot, Erie Railroad Station or Erie Depot was the terminal station for the Erie Railroad in Rochester, New York, designed by George E. Archer, the railroad's architect.[3][4] The station opened in 1887 between the Genesee River and Exchange Street on the south side of Court St. The station was one of the Erie's few electrified railroad stations,[5] and was one of the first stations to provide electric commuter services in 1907.[2] In 1905 the Lehigh Valley Railroad Station opened directly across the Genesee River from the Erie Depot.
Following the economically difficult years of the Great Depression, passenger service terminated in 1941.[6] The station was demolished in 1947.[7] The area has become a parking lot for the Blue Cross Arena.
Gallery
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Downtown Rochester in the late 1930s; Erie Depot is on the lower left -
Erie Railroad station in 1906 -
Erie Railroad station in 1906 - cropped view -
Erie Railroad Station (1907)
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See also
References
- ^ "Rochester's (inspiring) Old Railroad Stations". Rochester Subway. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
- ^ a b "Rochester-Mount Morris Electrification".
- ^ Berg, Walter G. (1893), "Passenger Depot at Rochester, NY New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad", Buildings and Structures of American Railroads, John Wiley and Sons, pp. 389–390, retrieved May 23, 2015
- ^ "Erie's Rochester Branch" (PDF). The Semiphore. Vol. 52 (7). April 2010. Retrieved May 8, 2013.
{{cite journal}}:|volume=has extra text (help) - ^ Lawrence, Scot (October 25, 2006). "Railroad History of Rochester, New York". Scot's Train Pages. Rochester, New York. Retrieved September 14, 2011.
- ^ "Erie Railroad Time Table - Effective September 29, 1940". Erie Railroad. Chicago, Illinois: The Cuneo Press Incorporated. September 29, 1940. Retrieved August 1, 2012.
- ^ "Erie's Rochester to Mt. Morris Electrification Image Gallery – 20 of 24". Hudson, Ohio: Erie Lackawanna Historical Society. 2006. Retrieved January 20, 2012.
