Buffalo Central Terminal A Photo Album "Here are over 120 photographs, a few of them in color, to document the terminal over a period of 50 years. Shots include the station with its massive office tower, and the interior gets special treatment in a 14-page chapter. Includes the statue of the bison and Tower 49, one of two within the terminal complex, which had an interlocking machine... more » that was so huge that the operators used an electrically-powered chair to whisk themselves from one end of the plant to the other. The towers (the other one was Tower 48) were designed to control switches and signals for as many as 1,400 train movements in a single day.
"Buffalo Central Terminal was completed for the New York Central in 1929. Other railroads used it too; it was a busy place. Its end as a train station came in 1979 when Amtrak opted to vacate the place in favor of smaller facilities.
"Buffalo Central Terminal may never again serve as a train station, but it is being restored, and visits are available at selected times or by appointment."« less