BR&P Passenger Station
East Salamanca, New York
East Salamanca was a major operational hub of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway in Western New York. In its heyday the BR&P had a large yard, roundhouse, locomotive repair shop, dispatcher's office, YMCA, and passenger station.
The passenger station, which still stands, was an ornate two-story brick structure. The BR&P also had a smaller station in downtown Salamanca. The smaller station was across the street from the Erie Railroad station in Salamanca and allowed passengers easy transfer between the railroads.
The current brick station was built between 1910 and 1914 and replaced a smaller, single-story station which can be seen in a 1910 photo of the dispatcher's office.
The photos below show how the building looked in 1971. These are from the Library of Congress collection of Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) photos. Portions of this collection are available in very high resolution digital files from the American Memory section of the Library's web site. The highest-resolution images are detailed enough to read the number on the freight cars in the yard, but are very large, 15-20 megabytes.
References
- Boucher, Jack. Photos from the "American Memory" collection of Historic American Engineering Record photos on the Library of Congress web site.