Please join BOMA Greater Buffalo and Marilyn Rogers, Executive Director/CEO Central Terminal Restoration Corp. on May 21, 2014.

Buffalo Central Terminal Tour

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Registration/Networking/Lunch:  11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Building Tour: 12:15 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Registration deadline: Friday, May 16, 2014
(Pre-registration is required)

PARKING and ENTRANCE

The Rise and Fall of Rail Service at the Buffalo Central Terminal

The Art Deco masterpiece was built to handle over 200 trains and 10,000 passengers daily, as well as 1,500 New York Central employees. It included shops, a restaurant, soda fountain, parking garage and all other services required for daily passenger operations. Although the Central Terminal had the misfortune to open mere months before the onset of the Great Depression, the building was extremely busy during its first two decades of operation, with no period busier than during World War II. Following the War, passenger rail travel fell precipitously as automobiles and air travel began to dominate. In 1955, the New York Central Railroad put the Buffalo Central Terminal on the market, though there was little demand to purchase such a large building. With the decline of passenger rail service, the New York Central mothballed much of the sprawling Buffalo Central Terminal and created a small station within a station to service the remaining passengers.

In 1968, the Terminal complex was absorbed into the Penn Central Railroad following the merger of the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads. Penn Central continued to operate passenger trains from Buffalo Central Terminal until 1971, when Amtrak took over operations of the majority of intercity passenger rail service in the country. The final passenger train departed the Buffalo Central Terminal in October 1979.

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