Your Hometown Station

Current Hometown Station in Greensboro, NC.

1926 Southern Railway Depot serving NC DOT, AMTRAK and GREYHOUND.

The Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee's elaborate Mundelein station at the end of that branch was my home away from home. It was a beautiful example of prairie style architecture designed by a well known Chicago area architect, Arthur Gerber

If you happened to see that location now, there is a block of nondescript box like apartment buildings in it's place.

There was a lot of freight activity due to the interchange just beyond the station with the Soo Line. Two storage tracks on either side of the double track mainline held long strings of cars between rush hours signed for either the Skokie Valley route or the Shore Line.. A passenger local serviced the branch itself right up to the end.

Where I now reside, there is the former Seaborad Atrline station, the next town over in Monroe NC still in use by CSX.

A nice new, very fine and well-maintained Amtrak station in my current home town, Cary, NC.

I went through the Train station where I was born - Trinidad, Colorado alot in the 1950s.  It was very big for a town on only 35,000 people, and had a beautiful, very large, elegant southwestern-style Cardenas Hotel and a Harvey House next to it - it did a lot of business because it catered to mostly the Santa Fe RR, and secondary, collector trains for the Denver and Rio Grande, etc., as Trinidad was one end of Santa Fe's major route or tracks over Raton Pass. It was destroyed in a flood a number of years later.

A little less picturesque than most - but it was home - 170 St on the IND in the Bronx.

Jim

Good one, Jim.......I guess the NYC Subway systems counts, too!

Here's my childhood station in the north Bronx, Buhre Avenue...

Peter

Not my photo but, my hometown station is Lewistown, PA.  Oldest structure known to have been built by PRR (1848) and believed to be the oldest station still used by Amtrak.

Curt

Grew up in Peekskill NY on the Hudson River line of the NYC and now take the train every day to work from Woodbridge or Rahway NJ.

Well I don't ever get homesick, unless I think about it. My home town, Roanoke, Virginia.

Fortunately, it's still there.

Gilly

We've lived for the last 17 years in Wyckoff, NJ, a bedroom common northwest of NYC.  I understand that decades ago there was a commuter train into Jersey City, I think, for people who worked in the city.  Now the old passenger-train station is home to a consignment shop run by the local school system.  

The track however is now part of the New York, Susquehanna & Western RR.  

- Mike

Postcard image of Central Union Terminal in Toledo, OH.  Built at a cost of $5 million and opened in 1950.  Underwent an $8.5 million renovation in 1996 and was renamed Martin Luther King, Jr. Plaza.  

Jeff Davis

My adopted hometown - not where I grew up.

I grew up in Cuyahoga Falls Ohio

While attending college at the University of Akron I got to see a couple of great stations daily.

Here is also a great website for anyone living in Ohio.

Burlington, NC: The Depot, a souvenir of the railroad days, is located in the central business district and served as the arrival and departure point for those traveling by train. Built in the mid-1800’s, the Depot was the hub of activity during the heyday of rail travel. Moved from its original location adjacent to the railroad tracks to its present site in 1978, it now serves as a meeting place for community groups and a site for special events and outdoor concerts.

Here's a picture of Burlington's Amtrak station as it looks now.

This would be my hometown station which is Waynesboro, Virginia. Pictured below is the evening north bound passenger train headed to Shenandoah, Hagerstown, MD and

New York City. Above the train are the C & O Mountain Sub tracks that run from

cCharlottesville to Clifton Forge.

This photo was taken 5 blocks from the future Hikel home.  The Seattle to Everett Interurban ended operation in 1939 but all the buildings in the photo except the passenger shelter were still standing when Dave and I were kids.  In fact, the first time I voted it was in the school building that is beyond the car.  The feed store with the box car spotted for unloading on the left was a furniture store in its last years.  The large English Tudor store was moved to a new location about 15 years ago but still stands.

Today Interstate 5 runs just left of and parallel to the Interurban right of way.

This is the station in my hometown of Eastbourne.

This is how it looked in 1895.

And this is how it looks today. Very little has changed on the outside.

There was nasty crash here in 1958 when a motorists special crashed at high speed straight into a train already at a platform. Eastbourne is a terminus station, so there would have been a nasty crash even if there hadn't been a train to hit first. Below is a short report on the accident.

My home town station.

I will claim three, since I grew up near them all.

Mars, Pennsylvania B&O station, 2013.

Adams Township, Butler Short Line station, 2013.

Valencia, Pennsylvania B&O station is just right of center in front of the tracks. It is long gone. ~1900 

I grew up just beyond the trees in the upper left.  The town looked pretty much the same when I was growing up in the 1960s

My hometown station: 1st station-Leonia, NJ on the NY & NJ RR:

Rebuit station that lasted until @ 1975:

Tenafly Station when I got Married. Requested photo. The Clinton Inn Is where I had my reception and took advantage of the Photographer.

I worked for Vepco in the '70s and again in the '80s and '90s.  I have been to Midlothian, in fact there was a hobby shop there.  I know the song well, too!

I suppose I have a few  

I was born in Mt. Clemens, MI

The Michigan Central Detroit, MI depot is the closest to my house

And the former Smiths Creek, MI depot is located where I work (also from the Grand Trunk as was the Mt. Clemens depot)

The Brunswick, Md. train station, taken this weekend.

I've been to the Brunswick station.  Lots of railroad action there.  They have a model railroad there, don't they?

Hi Mark -

Yes, they do, at the railroad museum.  It is HO, and the scenery is a reproduction of the mainline trackage from Brunswick to Washington, DC.  The museum has several artifacts and many photos of the glory days of the Brunswick yard, which is over 7 miles long.  Roundhouse is long gone.

Mike 

North Bloomfield, Ohio pre-1890 photo. This station will live again, as soon as I finish up my current project of rebuilding the Bloomfield Clay Products Company...

Mike,

Thank you.  I was there a long time ago, but wanted to make sure I was thinking of the right place.  Our girls were toddlers then, and never interested in trains, so we didn't stay long.  Now they are all grown up.

I guess my hometown station would be the Berwyn, Illinois (where I spent my formative years) CB&Q commuter station.(Now Metra/BNSF)

Around  1979-1980, the station was threatened with destruction, to be replaced by some kind of box by the Regional Transportation Authority.  The fair citizendry of Berwyn rose up and raised funds to save the station.

Part of the fundraising efforts were a T-shirt and a rather nice watercolor print of the station.

I was living out of state at the time, so my parents got the items for me.

Rusty

Oxford, PA.  Track was laid in the 1850s for the new Philadelphia and Baltimore Central Railroad through Oxford.  The railroad reached Oxford in 1860 and later connected to Philadelphia and Baltimore.  The Pennsylvania Railroad took control of the P&BC on the eve of World War I. Passenger train service on the line ended in 1935.

The line is now owned by Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) and operated by the East Penn Railroad.

The L&N Station in downtown Knoxville, along with the Southern Depot Station.

The DL&W station in Binghamton, NY, still in use as offices.  Photo taken about 1987.

I spent my childhood and even my young adult years bouncing around the southeastern US, so I don't have one place I would identify as my home town.  Where I live now is close to a roadbed that was graded in the 1850s, but the War came, the road ran out of money and the line was not completed.  I guess if there is one place I would identify as my home town station, the Alexandria Union Station would be it. 

The B&O station was torn down, not sure how long ago.  The PRR station was a former PB&W Station before the PRR bought them out.  There was another station in town along the former right of way that was changed when they built the new bridge in 1906.  The PRR Station burnt down back in the 1960's and was never rebuilt.  The trains no longer stop here.  The do stop in Perryville MD and Aberdeen MD.  Both stations are about two and five miles away.

I was born in Charlottesville, VA though have lived over half my life in Fairfax County so here is Fairfax Station:

and here it is a few years before my time

This is the Philadelphia & Reading station in Tamaqua, PA, opened in 1874. A local group, Save Our Station, devoted 15 years to restoring it after Conrail moved out and closed it. It is now the Vonz Restaurant, open Tuesday through Saturday. Reading & Northern uses that track, "The four-and-a-quarter," 425, roars by on excursions between Port Clinton and Jim Thorpe.

My hometown station is actually in the neighboring town and more of a freight depot. Built in 1928 by the Atlantic Coast Line, it's been fully restored with the segregation markings still intact. It now serves as an antique mall.

http://puntagordahistory.com/o...gordatraindepot.html

Here's the one near my home -- the Santa Fe San Bernardino Depot (shared with UP). Took this one from the next block. There's now a strip mall in between 2nd and 3rd streets, so this photo can't be done again.

Here's one a little farther from my house in Redlands, CA. The depot itself is pretty simple, but the passenger shelter is designed like a Greek temple and is about 300 feet long.

Finally, this is the old Pacific Electric Torrance Depot (now a restaurant) near where I grew up.

Here's how it appears today. Talk about a small world, I found out that the restaurant is owned by the cousin of a woman who worked for me in the 1990's.

The Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Co., Excelsior, MN