Show us your home town station pics

Can't do it....didn't have sense enough to take photos, nor a decent camera, when I lived in the first two small towns.  There was a lady in Iowa who I assumed was selling off her husband's collection of B&W postcards of a number of small stations around the country, but neither was on her list some years ago.  Do not know if that source is still available.  There is this brown covered series of small books that had photos of one of the towns I lived in (that you see in train shows, and are available for a lot of small towns) but that book did not have the RR station in it, and that was not the town

where I misspent my early childhood hanging out at the RR station.

Not my home town but where I spent summers in the 60's

Barnesville Ohio station on the old B&O line that the track has been pulled out but the station is still there..

The former EJ&E depot at Lake Zurich, Illinois.

The former C&NW (now METRA) Norwood Park station in Chicago, which was my father's hometown depot. It's close to my heart as I used to visit my grandparents in that neighborhood quite a bit, and I remember watching steam-powered commuter trains from the platform.

 the Santa Fe station in San Diego will be celebrating its 100th birthday in 2015...

 circa 1920

...today.  cheers...gary

This is the Buffalo Central Terminal, I plan to scratch build it for my layout.

This is how I plan to build it for the layout

Pittsburgh Penn Station.

Lincolndale NY RR station as taken in the 1960's. Tracks already gone as it stopped service in 1950's. It was on the connector spur between Goldens Bridge on the NYC Harlem Line and Lake Mahopac on the Putnam Division.

what an awesome structure!  seeing it fenced in, it only took a few clicks to find out about restoration plans...

http://buffalocentralterminal.org/

good luck to them!

A few of the former CB&Q station in Plano,IL.

Suffolk, Virginia SAL Station

This is not my picture, but I have heard that the current owners are not friendly to people taking pictures...and they have big dogs...

...but through the magic of a google search, here in the CNJ Palmerton Station!

Unfortunately, the Lehigh Valley station in Slatington is gone, destroyed by a train that decided it wanted to see the inside of a station, and the Lehigh Gap station was torn down. This is all that's left:

The need of the North Carolina Railroad in the 1850s to locate land where they could build, repair and do maintenance on its track was the genesis of Burlington, North Carolina. The area was originally called Company Shops.

Burlington’s former engine house built in the 1800’s to provide space for maintenance on train engines. Company Shops Station in now Alamance County’s passenger station. The 18,000 square foot facility also houses the NC Raiload Company’s Whistlestop Exhibit which includes a model of Company Shops (as Burlington was once known, scenes of life in the late 1800’s, steam and diesel train engines coming through the engine house, murals and more.

http://www.visitalamance.com/l...mpany-shops-station/

Greensboro, N.C.

Winchester VA, currently used as office and storage space

Hmmm....I like that stone Winchester, Va. station.

I grew up in LaVerne CA. The nearest train station was in San Dimas.

Here is two former Grand Trunk Western depots near my house.  Both of these photos have been posted here before.

1) Mt Clemens, MI

I took this about 2 winters ago.  It is now the Michigan Transit Museum.  It is open on the weekends and has a ton of Railroad stuff inside.  They also run a train every weekend during the summer but unfortunately the CN doesn't allow them to run it on the tracks behind the depot.  You have to get on the train about a mile away.  

2) New Haven, MI

Very similar in design to the Mt Clemens station and built about the same time.  Both of these stations claim to have had Thomas Edison work at them.

DL & W station, Binghamton, NY - 1988.  Still in nice condition and used for offices.

my home town

Frisco's Depot at Northview, Missouri:

My hometown of Metuchen, NJ has been on the PRR mainline, ever since there was a PRR in New Jersey.

It seems like yesterday I was running across the Northwestern tracks and wound up with a 3 inch scar on my leg some 52 years ago, and that my friends was the Park ridge station. Thanks for looking and enjoy your day, Bruce

Millersburg, Pa. Station across from Waynes Fairview Inn.

Baltimore's B&O Mt Vernon Station.  All tracks to and from the station are underground. 

During the steam era electric helper locomotives would bring the trains through the Howard Street tunnel to prevent cinder fires.

North Adams, Massachusetts B&M Station circa 1950

ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS Boston & Albany STATION - NOW A BAR.

Here are a couple from Detroit, Mich., it is sad to see this occuring!!

Marty

Other than Chicago's Union Station, it's Berwyn:

Rusty

Rutland Ohio tore down 1998

Here is Joliet's Union Station, looks like this photograph was taken at the completion of construction in 1912.

Here is my scale model of the station under construction (still) today. Id like to say its taking forever because I have been working on my basement bar and another building, but the truth is there are many details that I do not know how to complete to my liking, and just dont have the ability to do myself. Such as the arched curved top that goes around the main 3 windows. Until I figure it out progress is at a standstill. I need to set a hard goal and get it completed by Christmas.

CSX AL I am looking forward to seeing your construction of that station.

Thanks everyone for sharing your stations. The variations in size and style are really interesting.

Zett, I look forward to seeing your completed model - whenever.

I can't say I've seen another steepled station like that N. Adams, Mass. one posted.

Norfolk & Western Station in Roanoke, Virginia. 

Built in 1905; remodeled in 1948 by Raymond Lowey (the same guy that designed the GG1). 

Two photos of the Pere Marquette Depot in Midland, MI. Long, long gone.

Bob

Technically this would be it. However we didn't ride trains when I was living there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GMOTerminal.jpg

Michigan Central RR station in St. Charles MI. It was derelict and a hangout for hoodlums when I was a kid in the 70's. I am told it is actually still standing.

The Union Depot in Vicksburg, MI for the Grand Trunk Western and the Grand, Rapids & Indiana-Pennsylvania Railroad-Penn Central.

Andrew

The Vicksburg Union Depot in Vicksburg, MI.

Andrew

Great thread idea!  Five Railroads came through my home town of Scranton, PA.  I have no decent photos of the Erie passenger depot, because it is hidden inside Cooper's Restaurant.  NYO&W's Providence (North Scranton) station was torn down a few years ago.  I may have slides of it, but it was gone by the time I bought a digital camera.  D&H's station was torn down so Greyhound could have a station.  The freight depot still stands.

These are images of Central of New Jersey's 1890 freight depot, which they also shared to some degree with the New York Ontario & Western.  No tracks near here anymore.

And here is the Delaware Lackawanna & Western passenger depot. Taken early in the morning during the NRHS Scranton convention in 2010.

The trackside view is as nice as the street-side.

Oxford, Pa.

Originally built by the Philadelphia and Baltimore Central Railroad in the 1860's, which was merged with the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad in 1881, which was itself controlled by the PRR (Central Division) and called the Octoraro Branch.  Passenger train service ended in 1935.

After the PRR merged into Penn Central and the Penn Central bankruptcy, ownership of the line went to Conrail. Following the Conrail breakup, the Southeast Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) took over the Octoraro Branch, and leased it to short-line freight railroad companies. 

Today, the line is run by the East Penn Railroad, although the right-of-way is still owned by SEPTA.

This is a trackside view of the Union Depot in Vicksburg, Michigan.

Andrew

Woy Woy Station Australia

CSXAL Those photos bring back memories. Thanks for posting

Here is Northport New York on The Long Island Railroad Port Jefferson Branch. This is about 1950 or so. Other than only one track, no more steam and the addition of a high level platform, it still looks about the same today. The steamer is No 113 a Long Island 2-8-0 consolidation class H10s. This engine handled the freight business on the Branch. Since the line was single track, 113 is waiting fr an Eastbound to arrive and clear at Northport.

Sioux Falls, SD.  Taken with a vintage 1880s Watson & Son tailboard camera and Taylor & Hobson triplet lens on Ilford FP4.

Kent in SD