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D.L.& W. Railroad Terminal

As a kid, I can remember being fascinated by trains rolling right into the second floor of this station. Every weekday evening at about 5pm, a predominately maroon Erie-Lackawanna passenger train arrived from somewhere in New Jersey, across from NYC. It was pulled by one of those new fancy diesel locomotives, it really looked sharp. This terminal was torn down sometime in the 80's I think, maybe earlier, and parts of it were saved and continue to be used for servicing the subway.


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Jason Whelan 29-Nov-2005 18:50
Actually the only portion that still stands from the D,L, & W are the train sheds which are to the immediate right of the picture. The actual terminal building was torn down in the late 1970's. At that time, it was said that this terminal was in far worse shape than the Central Terminal could ever be.
The trains would pull into the second level on huge concrete bridges from the Michigan side and come out elaborate concrete viaducts and head towards the old rail lines along Terrace that would link up with current line that runs along the I-190.
In fact the Eire Basin Marina is built on the old coal docks for the Delaware Lackawanna Railroad.
Buffalo Nate 07-Oct-2005 16:53
This building still stands, its at the foot of main right behind the HSBC Arena. They removed all but the first two floors of the building. The Seneca Nation is going to try and incorporate a casino here, but they also bought some of the blocks in the cobblestone district as well.
richard 10-Apr-2004 22:20
D L & W trains which became E-L, Erie Lackawana in 1961,were not ALL marone but marone and grey.If you are still thinking all marone then you were looking at Lehigh Valley trains which were Cornell Red. Their terminal was torn down in the mid '50's and is the site of the General Donovan Building accross from the old Aud.
PETER GIULLARI 02-Apr-2004 03:58

AS A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT (BENNETT '47 PG '48) I REMEMBER GOING DOWN TOWN FOR NOTHING BETTER TO DO AND CHECK OUT THE AREA AS WE SANG " WHERE DA WORK A JOHN ON DA DELWARE LAKAWAN WHATAYA DO JOHN",ETC